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
• 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, and 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

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Author: Paul Medow
KPA: 24/01, 8 (General plan, detail in all the archive)