The European Union is in troubled waters. Its original reliance on law as the object and agent of the integration project and the "economic constitution" which Economic and Monetary Union as accomplished by the Maastricht Treaty were expected to complete proved to be unsustainable. Following the...

How can we explain why Karl Polanyi's book <i>The Great Transformation</i> is more relevant today than ever before? The central thesis of the paper is that Polanyi's analysis is groundbreaking because it goes far beyond the interpretation of the civilization of the nineteenth century. By focusing on...