Polanyi in times of populism: Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas

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Christopher Holmes (University of Warwick, UK)

Polanyi in times of populism

Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas

Christopher Holmes (University of Warwick, UK)

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Routledge
16 April 2018

Politics & government; Political economy

Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

The rise of populism across Europe and the US – first in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and then in the shape of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Brexit vote in 2016 – are indicative of a seismic shift in the terrain of economic ideas in public discourse. Settled liberal norms concerning ever-increasing international market expansion, and the political integration required to sustain it, have been decisively upset by political forces that, whilst once on the fringes, now dominate economic debate. How might we make sense of this ideological breakdown and what might we hope for next?

This book turns to the work of Karl Polanyi for answers, developing the expansive, historicised approach to political economy that Polanyi pioneered. Holmes provides a wide-ranging history of economic ideas read in terms of a series of hopeful theoretical visions of order, in which political, social and ecological contradictions could be transcended in one way or another. Through this, the book demonstrates that the failing utopian visions of pre-2008 economic orthodoxy, which have formed the backdrop to the rise of populism today, are only the latest in a series that stretches across economic thought in Western modernity as a whole.

This book will interest students and scholars of IPE, political science, sociology, anthropology, law and history.

By: Christopher Holmes (University of Warwick UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781138226708
ISBN 10: 113822670X
Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 16 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Holmes is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King’s College, London. He works on various topics including the history of economic ideas, financial and monetary politics and alternatives to GDP in policy-making. He has published in a variety of leading journals including Economy and Society, New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

Reviews for Polanyi in times of populism: Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas

Polanyi in Times of Populism is... a much-needed plea to acknowledge that the democratic precondition of any exploratory movement and learning process, which are so vital in times of transformation, is a society in which plural interests, ideas, and values can be expressed and discussed. Richard Barnthaler, OEsterreich Z Soziol (2019)