The Livelihood of Man

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Karl Polanyi: Notes on His Life

Editor's Preface

Editor's Introduction

Preface

[xl] The crucial policy slant comes home to us as the earlier millennia [xli] of human problems pass in review.

Introduction

I. The Place of the Economy in Society

A. Concepts and Theory

1. The Economistic Fallacy

2. The Two Meanings of Economic

[19] The substantive meaning, points to the elemental fact that human beings, like all other living things, cannot exist for any length of time without a physical environment that sustains them; this is the origin of the substantive definition of economic.

3. Forms of Integration and Supporting Structures

B. Institutions.

The Emergence of Economic Transactions: From Tribal to Archaic Society

4. The Economy Embedded in Society
5. The Emergence of Economic Transaction
6. Equivalencies in Archaic Societies
7. The Economic Role of Justice, Law and Freedom

The Catallactic Triad: Trade, Money, and Markets

Introduction
8. Traders and Trade
9. Money Objects and Money Uses
10. Market Elements and Market Origins

II. Trade, Markets and Money in Ancient Greece

11. The Hesiodic Age: Tribal Decay and Peasant Livelihood

12. Local Markets: The Political Economy of Polis and Agora

13. Local Markets and Overseas Trade

14. Securing Grain Imports

15. The Growth of Market Trade

16. Money, Banking, and Finance

17. "Capitalism" in Antiquity

Text Informations

Original Publication: The Livelihood of Man, H. W. Pearson (ed.), New York, Academic Press, 1977
AKP:

  • 35/11: Table of contents - Preface, Introduction (1950, 86 typed p.)
  • 36/01: Draft Manuscript – Livelihood of Man – Part I Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 12. Part II Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16, and 17 ;
  • 36/02: Karl Polanyi Draft Manuscript, late 1977 edited by H. Pearson (96 typed p.)

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FR La subsistance de l’Homme