Outline for a revision of The Great transformation (1961)
- I. The vanishing of the Nineteenth Century
- II. The Rationalistic Bias of the Social Sciences of the West
- 1. The Greek approach to the analysis of society
- 2. The origins of the rationalist bias in European Thought
- 3. The rationalist bias in the social doctrines of the Enlightenment
- 4. The rationalist bias in the social doctrine of Marxism
- III. The Return to a non-atomistic Concept of Society
- 1. Early attempts to formulate a non-atomistic concept of society
- a. The concept of the ‘oikos’ and the debate on primitivism
- b. The concept of social embeddedness
- 2. Economic anthropology and the discovery of the institutional basis of social embeddedness
- 3. The non-atomistic Concept of Society
- a. Rights and obligations deriving from functional responsibilities
- b. Rights and obligations deriving from ethically-oriented interpersonal relationships
- 1) The dilemma of personal relations and the two ethics
- 2) The expansion of the sphere of internal ethics
- a) the limitation of mutual aid through a division of functions
- b) the use of internal ethics for external relationships
- 3) Personal religions and the redirection of personal ethics into impersonal functional channels (redistribution)
- 4) The secularization of social relationships
- c. The relations of rights to duties: two concepts of social justice
- d. The role of equivalencies in the economic process
- 4. The social conception of man
- 1. Early attempts to formulate a non-atomistic concept of society
- IV. The Emergence of socially disembedded Economies in the West
- 1. The socially embedded or market-regulated economy
- 2. Machine production and the establishment of the nineteenth century order
- 3. The market ideology of liberalism
- 4. The market system and economic development
- 5. The gold standard and the world market economy
- 6. Peace
- V. The Self-protection of Society and the Great Transformation
- 1. The conflicts created by the disembedding of the economy as a source of social change
- 2. Liberal ideology and the economic paralysis of the political sphere
- 3. The socio-economic strains create by social and national protectionism
- 4. The general crisis of society in the 1930’s
- 5. Fascism, socialism, an the New Deal
- 6. Liberal ideology and the causes of the Second World War
- VI. The Great Transformation after the Second World War
- VII. The Need for a New West
- VIII. Science, Technology and Socialism
- IX. The Liberal Threat to Personal Freedom
- Appendix
- A. On Pre-industrial societies
- B. On Marxism
- C. The Mathematics of Social Costs
- D. The planning of International Trade