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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time sewing Caracole brings back to startlingAuthor Contributor(s): Polanyi, Karl Publisher: Beacon Press Date: 3 28 2001 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism.