Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost HumanDiscusses the question of the extent to which the market has the power to recreate the rest of society in its own image. Neo-classical economists and radical critics alike tend to believe that markets have this power, but looking at the question in a historical perspective, it is clear that this is not the case. Individuals and social groups have been very clever in protecting themselves against encroachments by market forces. The author speculates alternative kinds of protective responses that might appear in the future and what society would be like without any kinds of protection at all. – from publisher description. |
Contents
The Power of Markets Division of Labour | 13 |
The European Idea of the Home | 31 |
The Chinese Family | 43 |
European Sects Guilds and Trade Unions | 57 |
Japanese Business Corporations | 71 |
Personal Thais and How They Survived the Boom | 83 |
Versions of the European State | 95 |
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