From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

Kari Polanyi Levitt is Emeritus Professor of Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

• Foreword by Samir AminPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Polanyi on Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy1. On Transformations: Past, Present, and Future?2. Hayek from Vienna to Chicago: Architect of the Neoliberal Creed3. The Roots of Polanyi's Socialist Vision4. Back to the Future: The World Economic Crisis of the 1930s5. Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s6. Leading Concepts in the Work of Karl Polanyi and their Contemporary Relevance7. Culture and economy8. Social dividend as a citizen rightPart II: The Global South from Conquest and Exploitation to Self-reliant Development9. Structural Continuity and Economic Dependence in the Capitalist World System10. Mercantilist Origins of Capitalism and its Legacies: Decline of the West and Rise of the Rest11. The Great Financialization12. Development Economics in Perspective13. Reclaiming Policy Space for Equitable Economic Development14. Intellectual Independence and Transformative Change in the SouthPostscript on Globalization and DevelopmentBibliography

This extraordinary volume from Kari Polanyi Levitt is a must-read and provides a unique window on the thinking of Karl Polanyi demonstrating the relevance of his ideas to the challenges of the 21st Century. At the same time, as one of the leading interpreters of the "high age of development economics", Kari Polanyi Levitt offers us an insightful and original analysis of the progressive processes of national development and social transformation emanating from the South today.