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)