The time has come when retrospective wisdom may assess it all, for, as Aristotle said, we can learn the nature of anything only when it has reached - and passed - its maturation. #The falconeer opencritic fullPolanyi's immediate objective is to bring out, as he does with remarkable discernment, the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew to its full stature in the nineteenth century. He is not bringing a candle light into one of its dark corners, nor is he plausibly making it the public scripture of his private faith instead, with insight as well as with knowledge, he is shedding a new illumination on the processes and revolutions of a whole age of unexampled change. Polanyi does not profess to be writing history - he is rewriting it. Here, at a crucial hour, is a fresh comprehension of the form and the meaning of human affairs. So rare an event is a portent of the times. HERE IS A BOOK that makes most books in its field seem obsolete or outworn. C., as well as by the Seligman Library of Columbia University, New York. Research facilities were kindly granted by the Library of Congress in Washington, D. #The falconeer opencritic seriesPlans for the work were advanced by a series of public lectures and a seminar held during the academic year 1940-41. To the Rockefeller Foundation he is indebted for a two-year Fellowship, 1941-43, which permitted him to complete the book at Bennington College, Vermont, following an invitation extended to him by Robert D. The book was seen through the press entirely by Kouwenhoven, with the help of Drucker and Mendershausen, for which act of friendship the author feels deeply grateful. The author also owes thanks for a careful reading to Hans Zeisel of Rutgers University. The latter and his wife were a source of sustained encouragement, notwithstanding their wholehearted disagreement with the author's conclusions the former's general sympathy added to the usefulness of his advice. Among other helpful friends were the author's Bennington colleagues, Horst Mendershausen and Peter F. Kouwenhoven helped as a trusted friend with reading and editing many of his suggestions have been incorporated in the text. Common studies linked him to Felix Schafer of Vienna, an economist, at present in Wellington, New Zealand. Very much is due to the author's English friends, notably Irene Grant, with whose group he was associated. The story of this book is a story of generous friendships. Its main thesis was developed during the academic year 1939-40 in conjunction with his work in Tutorial Classes, organized by the Workers' Educational Association, at Morley College, London, at Canterbury and at Bexhill. But it was begun and finished in England, where the author was Lecturer for the Extramural Delegacy of the University of Oxford and the corresponding institutions of the University of London. THIS BOOK was written in America during the Second World War. To my beloved wife Ilona Duczynska I dedicate this book which owes all to her help and criticism Additional Note: Poor Law and the Organization of Labor 294įirst Beacon Paperback edition published in 1957 by arrangement with Rinehart & Company, Inc.īeacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association Disraeli's "Two Nations" and the Problem of Colored Races 290 Selected References to "Evolution of the Market Pattern" 274 Selected References to "Societies and Economic Systems" 269 Swings of the Pendulum after World War I 267 History in the Gear of Social Change 237Ĭhapter 21. Popular Government and Market Economy 223Ĭhapter 20. Market and Productive Organization 192Ĭhapter 19. Birth of the Liberal Creed (Continued): Class Interest and Social Change 151Ĭhapter 16. Birth of the Liberal Creed 135Ĭhapter 13. Man, Nature, and Productive Organization 130Ĭhapter 12. Political Economy and the Discovery of Society 111Ĭhapter 11. Antecedents and Consequences 86Ĭhapter 10. The Self-regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money 68Ĭhapter 8. Evolution of the Market Pattern 56Ĭhapter 6. Societies and Economic Systems 43Ĭhapter 5. "Habitation versus Improvement" 33Ĭhapter 4. Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties 20Ĭhapter 3.
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