Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it, how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built?

Peadar Kirby investigates the causes of our current multifaceted global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi. This book explores Polanyi''s theory that social disruptions result from the attempt to run society according to the rules of the ma...