Intro -- Introduction: State, Market and Organizational Form -- Economistic Interpretations of Global Change -- Beyond Homo Oeconomicus -- Embeddedness of Economic and Organizational Activity: Towards a Dynamic Conceptualization -- Part One. Political Processes, Economic Interests and...

Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions...