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The Great Transformation

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by Karl Polanyi


  George, Stefan, 246

  Germany, 6, 19, 24, 30, 32, 196, 213, 222, 252–253, 254; and Bolshevism, 199; cartels, 226; colonial policy, 226; and the Concert of Europe, 8; currency, 224, 238; customs tariff, 226; and disarmament, 250; and England, 13; factory legislation, 153; Fascism, 25, 32, 246, 250; and France, 12, 226; foreign investment policy, 12; a “have-not,” 221; industrial revolution, 183; inflation, 24; labour, 251; leaves the League of Nations, 253; National Socialist Revolution, 24; and the peace interest, 19; preparations for war, 252; prosperity, 252; social insurance, 226; workmen’s compensation, 154

  Ghost dance, 168

  Gibbins, H. de B., 38

  Gilbert, Thomas, 296

  Gilbert’s Act, 100, 111, 285

  Gladstone, William Ewart, 222

  Godwin, William, 88, 89, 127, 132, 296

  Gold, 137, 203

  Gold standard, 3, 26–27, 31, 80, 141, 144, 169, 201 ff., 211, 223, 226, 234, 236, 252, 254; collapse, 21; and currency, 224; failure, 28, 29; origin, 32; and the peace factor, 14; restoration, 149; table of countries off, 275; in the United States, 211

  Goldenweiser, A., 165, 278, 301, 302

  Government. See Popular government.

  Grant, Irene, 11

  Great Britain, 20, 30, 253, 254, 299; balance of power, 269; and Bismarck, 8; currency, 235–236, 242; expansion, 5, 6; and Fascism, 250; foreign policy, 222; general strike, 236; and laissez-faire, 149; National Government, 235; off the gold standard, 24, 27, 149, 208, 252; trade, 216, 238; unemployment benefits, 288

  Great War. See World War I.

  Greece, 16, 33, 236; currency, 27

  Grey, Sir Edward (Lord Grey of Fallodon), 269

  Guilds, 69, 73

  Habeas Corpus Act, 146, 264

  Haberler, G., 220

  Habitation versus improvement, 35 ff.

  Hadley, A. T., 234

  Hales, John, 38

  Halévy, Elie, 286

  Halifax, Lord, 254

  Hamburg, 66

  Hamilton, Alexander, 222

  Hammond, Barbara, 179, 287

  Hammond, J. L., 179, 287

  Hammurabi (in Babylonia), 53

  Hampshire, 98, 296

  Hanse, 66

  Hapsburgs, 271

  Hartley, David, 119

  Harvey, J., 285

  Hastings, Warren, 222

  Haushofer, Karl, 272

  Haute finance, 10, 14, 18–19, 23, 29; England, 11; France, 11; function, 10–11; organization, 12

  Hawtrey, G. R., 59, 75, 193, 272

  Hayes, C. A., 197

  Hazlitt, W., 131

  Heatley, D. P., 272

  Heckscher, E. F., 38, 173, 283, 284

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 116

  Heimwehr, 249

  Helvetius, Claude Adrien, 119

  Henderson, H. D., 72

  Henry VIII, King, 233

  Herriot, Edouard, 154

  Hershey, A. S., 17, 272

  Herskovits, M. J., 280, 282, 171

  Heymann, H., 250

  Hilferding, Rudolf, 26, 276

  Hindenburg, Paul von Beneckendorff und von, 24, 246, 250

  Hitler, Adolf, 199, 246, 247, 251, 254

  Hobbes, Thomas, 119, 172

  Hobson, J. A., 276

  Hofmann, A., 272

  Holland, 29, 271; and Fascism, 246, 249

  Holmes, E., 285

  Holy Alliance, 5 ff., 17

  Hoover, Herbert, 25

  Householding, 56

  Houses of Industry, 287

  Howlett, Rev. J., 288, 290, 296

  Humanity. See Society.

  Hume, David, 119, 192 ff., 270, 272

  Hundred Years’ Peace, 3 ff., 198, 273–274; bibliography, 272

  Hungary, 5, 13, 24, 249; and Bolshevism, 196; and currency, 27; and Fascism, 246, 249

  Hungry Forties, 181, 234

  Huskisson, William, 232

  “Ideal system” (economic), 8

  Immigration, 214

  Imperialism, 16, 158, 192, 218, 221– 222, 214–215, 227

  Import tariffs. See Customs tariffs.

  Imports, 221

  Improvement versus habitation, 36 ff.

  Incas, 54, 280

  India, 54, 167–168, 173; and currency, 280

  Indian Reorganization Act, 302

  Indians, American. See North American Indians.

  Individual, rights of, in society, 245

  Indo-China, 6

  Industrial Revolution, 7, 8, 36, 39 ff., 81, 93, 124, 135, 169, 173; causes, 42–43; cultural effect, 164; defi- nition, 42–43; England, 31, 36 ff., 182; Europe, 182–183; origin, 32; social conditions, 41–42, 182

  Industry, 16

  Industry-houses, 112, 122, 126

  Inflation, 24, 25, 27, 148, 235

  Inheritance Act, 189

  Innes, A. D., 38

  International institutions, 3–4. See also Balance of Power; Gold standard.

  International Labour Office, 27

  International order and peace, 260–261

  International system, 4–5, 16, 21 ff.; failure, 29, 252; monetary, 16

  Internationalism, 10, 207

  Intervention, international, 5

  Interventionism, 38–39, 69–70, 155, 161, 207, 215–216, 217, 225, 231, 239

  Investments, foreign, 11, 15

  Ireland, 246

  Italy, 5, 24, 32, 221, 245–246; Bolshevism, 199; currency, 26; Fascism, 245–246, 249, 250; industrial revolution, 183; preparations for war, 252

  James, Isaac, 118, 296

  Japan, 221, 252, 270; Fascism, 246

  Jesus, 249

  Judaism, 249

  Johnson, Charles S., 303

  Jones, Edward, 296

  Jowett, Benjamin, 56

  Jugoslavia, 245

  Kaffirs, 165, 171, 302, 303

  Kett’s rebellion, 37

  Keynes, John Maynard, 195

  Kingfish. See Long, Huey.

  Kingsley, Charles, 102, 165

  Kingsley, Mary H., 302

  Klages, Ludwig, 246

  Knight, Frank H., 250

  Knowledge of constitutive facts, 264

  Knowles, L. C. A., 184, 272

  Kouwenhoven, John A., 11

  Kpelle, 62

  Kraal-land system, 171

  Kula ring, 62

  Kula trade, 51, 52

  Kwakiutl (tribesmen), 53, 171

  Labour, 41, 71 ff., 81 ff., 171 ff., 234; code of, 91; division of, 282; enforced, 91, 92, 99; independent, 104; nationalization, 73; nomadic, 172; obligations, 120

  Labour exchange, 110, 113, 176

  Labour legislation, English, 73

  Labour market. See Markets, Labour.

  Labour organization, 90, 288 ff.

  Labour parties, 150, 236, 243

  Laissez-faire, 122, 124, 138, 143, 145, 147, 154 ff., 286

  Land, 36, 39, 71 ff., 81, 187 ff.; colonies, 188

  Landflucht, 293

  Langer, W. L., 273, 276

  Lassalle, Ferdinand, 26, 111, 113

  Lasswell, H. D., 272, 273

  Latin America and Fascism, 246

  Latvia, 25, 249, 251

  Laud, William, Archbishop, 37

  Lawrence, D. H., 246

  Lawson, 110

  League Council, 23

  League of Nations, 27, 29; balance of power, 22, 249; collapse, 24; gold delegation of, 242

  Leathes, Sir Stanley Mordaunt, 272, 276

  Leigh, Robert D., 11

  Lenin, Wladimir Ilyitch, 16, 24, 26

  Lesser, Alexander, 301

  Libel Act, 142

  Liberal philosophy and Fascism, 265–266

  Liberal State, 3, 29, 31, 195

  Linton, Ralph, 278

  Lippmann, Walter, 46, 148, 155, 272, 288

  Lipson, Ephraim, 282

  Lithuania, 25, 251

  Lloyd George, David, 155

  Locke, John, 111, 117, 129, 233

  Loeb, E. M., 171, 281, 282

 
; London, 181, 196, 202

  Long, Huey, 249

  Lorimer, Frank, 302

  Lowie, Robert Harry, 277

  Luddism, 85, 175

  Lueger, Karl, 154

  Luson, Hewling, 296

  Luther, Martin, 116

  Luxembourg, neutralization, 8

  Lyons, 173

  Lysis (Michel le Tellier), 276

  Macaulay, Thomas Babbington (Lord Macaulay), 185, 233, 234

  Machiavelli, Niccolo, 116

  Machines, 77–78, 124–125

  MacIver, Robert M., 10

  Madagascar, 6

  Mair, L. P., 171, 301

  Majendie, 292

  Malinowski, Bronislav, 50, 277

  Malthus, Thomas Robert, 88, 89, 103, 109, 118, 121, 127–129, 131, 143, 231, 285, 299

  Manchester, 142, 174

  Mandeville, Doctor, 114

  Mankind. See Society.

  Mann, J., 291

  Mantoux, P. L., 127, 287

  Manufactures, 98

  Market economy, 31 ff., 75 ff., 105, 136, 187 ff., 195, 223 ff., 231 ff., 303; ancient Greece, 56; definition, 42, 43–44, 45, 71; England, 31; successor of Speenhamland, 106

  Market system, 40, 44, 78, 85, 129, 136–137, 139, 145, 155 ff., 162, 171 ff., 195, 226; collapse of, 243; self-regulating, 31–32

  Markets, 29, 43, 45–46, 56 ff., 171 ff., 187 ff., 201 ff., 228, 257–258, 276– 277, 281–282; corn, 289; customs and ceremonies, 64; definition, 59; fairs, 63; free, 146; India, 167; labour, 73, 75, 81, 82, 84, 92, 122, 132, 141–144, 169 ff., 184–185, 190, 225, 233, 239, 300; land, 75, 169 ff., 187 ff., 225, 239; local, 61, 64– 65, 67; money, 18, 75, 169 ff., 239; national, 64, 68–69, 120; one big market, 75, 187; origin, 66–67; ports, 63; real estate, 187; self- regulating, 3, 40, 42 ff., 60, 71 ff., 87, 132, 137–138, 141, 144, 147 ff., 154 ff., 198, 209, 217, 225, 280; United States, 210; world, 79–80

  Marshall, Dorothy, 297

  Marshall, T. H., 299

  Martineau, Harriet, 94, 102, 104–105, 233, 286, 297

  Marx, Karl, 8, 26, 76, 88, 113, 131, 158, 174, 285

  Massie, J., 297

  Materialism, 31, 42

  Mayer, J. P., 272

  Mead, Margaret, 166, 301

  Meeting of Sufferings, 111

  Melanesians, 302

  Mellonie, F. C., 297

  Mendershausen, Horst, 11

  Mercantilism, 38, 70, 73, 77, 90, 284

  Meredith, H. O., 83

  Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von, 7

  M’Farlane, John, 108, 296, 303

  Micronesians, 279

  Middle classes, 17, 25, 104–105, 139, 180, 182, 194, 195, 196; Austria, 197. See also Classes.

  Mill, James, 166

  Mill, John Stuart, 26, 88, 212

  Millins, Mrs. S. G., 165

  Mines Act, 152

  Minstrels, 277

  Mises, Ludwig von, 26, 46, 148, 185, 198, 204, 234, 235, 287

  Mitchell, W. C., 286

  Mond Plan, 299

  Mond, Sir Alfred, 288

  Money, 25–26, 56, 61, 71 ff., 81, 204, 205, 208, 211–212, 282–283; com- modity, 137, 202, 205; Egypt, 53– 54; free, 214–215; token, 202, 205, 208; United States, 235. See also Currency; Wealth.

  Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat de, 70, 233

  More, Hannah, 179, 196, 289

  More, Thomas, 116

  Morgan, John Pierpont, 29

  Morgans, 29

  Morocco, 13, 20

  Mowat, R. B., 273

  Muir, Ramsay, 273

  Munich, 253

  Münster, Treaty of, 7, 270

  Mussolini, Benito, 26, 199, 246, 251

  Nasmith, James, 297

  National Charity Company, 112

  Nationalism, 16, 207–208

  National Socialist Revolution, 24

  Nazism, 250, 253

  Netherlands. See Holland.

  Neutralization, 8

  New Deal, 24, 211, 236, 237

  New Lanark, 178–179

  New Poor Law, 232, 233

  Nicholls History of the Poor Laws, 290

  Nonconformity in established society, 260

  Norman, Montagu, 253, 254

  North American Indians, 168, 301–302

  Norway, 8

  Oastler, Richard, 174

  Ohlin, B., 189

  Oil industry, 149

  Okeden, 292

  Old Age Pension Act, 287

  Oncken, H., 273

  Operative Builders’ Union, 177

  Oppenheim, L., 272

  Orange State, 221

  Ortes, Giammaria, 108

  Ottoman Empire, 5, 8

  Outdoor relief, 100

  Owen, Robert, 88, 89, 111, 113, 115, 125, 133 ff., 165, 176, 178 ff., 235, 268, 297, 302–303

  Owenism, 175 ff.

  Owenite movement, 175 ff., 294

  Owenite Societies, 176

  Pacific Islands, 221

  Pacifism, 5, 11

  Paine, Thomas, 97, 297

  Palestine, 246

  Palgrave, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 298

  Palmerston, Third Viscount, 269, 274

  Panopticon, 126, 146

  Pantlen, Herman, 284

  Papen, Franz von, 247

  Paris, 181

  Paris, Bourse of, 13

  Parish serfdom, 289

  Parliamentary Reform Act, 105, 124, 174, 232

  Paternalism, 82, 92

  Pauperism, 82 ff., 108, 123, 128, 232, 296 ff.; bibliography, 296 ff.; first appearance in England, 109; rural, 93–94. See also Speenhamland; Poor Law.

  Pawnee hand game, 168

  Pax Britannica, 14

  Peace, 7, 17, 18, 22, 23, 276; African, 301; “armed peace,” 14

  “Peace interest,” 7 ff., 11, 14, 273–274

  Peace Treaties. See Treaties and particular Peace Treaties.

  Peasantry, 67, 182, 192, 197; and Fascism, 251

  Peel, Robert, 143, 185, 232, 233

  Pelican Inn, 82

  Pengwe of West Africa, 62

  Penrose, E. F., 190, 210

  Persia, 20

  Pew, Richard, 297

  Pharmacopœia, 152

  Phillips, W. A., 273

  Physiocrats, 115, 141, 195

  Piracy, 274

  Pirenne, Henri, 63, 270, 272, 281, 283 ff.

  Pitt, William, 112, 122, 143, 185, 285

  Pitt, William Morton, 296

  Pitt-Rivers, 301

  Planning and freedom, 262 ff.

  Plato, 119

  Poland, 5, 24, 25

  Polanyi, Karl, 7–10, 241, 245

 

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