Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century.

Introduction: Questioning the utopian springs of market economy
Damien Cahill, Martijn Konings and Adam David Morton
1. Polanyi vs Hayek?
Philip Mirowski
2. Polanyi's two transformations revisited: a 'bottom up' perspective
Sandra Halperin
3. 'Our world was made by nature': constructions of spontaneous order
Gareth Dale
4. Market/society: mapping conceptions of power, ideology and subjectivity in Polanyi Hayek, Foucault, Lukács
Nicola Short
5. The great trasformismo: Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi on the rise of Fascism
Adam David Morton
6. Polanyi, Hayek and embedded neoliberalism
Damien Cahill
7. Karl Polanyi as a spatial theorist
Philip Roberts
8. Against exceptionalism: the legitimacy of the neoliberal age
Martijn Konings
9. Neoliberalism as a real utopia? Karl Polanyi and the theoretical practice of F.A. Hayek
João Rodrigues
10. Hayek and the Methodenstreit at the LSE
Jeremy Shearmur
11. Reading Polanyi in Erbil: understanding socio-political factors in the development of Iraqi Kurdistan
Robert Smith