Ideas series “Markets and Society” available for download

ImageCBC Radio’s award-winning program Ideas has put its entire Markets and Society series online. You can now download the full, unrestricted MP3 files. Each episode runs about 53 minutes.
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Part 1: INTRODUCTION: A marketplace whose “laws” determine social possibilities is the dominant economic idea of our time. David Cayley explores the thought of Karl Polanyi, one of this idea’s greatest critics.
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Part 2: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: The West, according to Karl Polanyi, was the first civilization to “disembed” the economy from society and let a self-regulating market dictate its social relations.
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Part 3: SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM: Karl Polanyi was a life-long socialist, but he opposed the tyranny and bureaucracy of Communism just as strongly as the rule of the market.
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Part 4: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TURN: Karl Polanyi highlighted the novelty of the modern West by exploring how earlier societies had contained and subordinated markets.
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Part 5: THE LEGACY: In the last twenty-five years, what Karl Polanyi called, “the stark utopia” of a global, self-regulating market has replaced and overwhelmed independent, national economies.
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  Email this Posted at 9:53 pm (08 Aug 2006)

3 Responses to “Ideas series “Markets and Society” available for download”

    Polanyi was a genius, and this is a great series. (As per usual from David Cayley).

    -- G

    I ordered the transcript a little while ago, and then it showed up on the weekly podcast, and now this! Thanks for the tip..

    -- Mike

    Thanks for posting these Tod. I’m subscribed to the Ideas podcast and am still working my way through the series - it’s a very in-depth one, but the background helps a lot and, as always with CBC, I come away feeling intellectually satisfied rather than teased with soundbytes.

    -- Todd