1. Introduction: learning from Polanyi 1 Chris Hann and Keith Hart; 2. Necessity or contingency: mutuality and market Stephen Gudeman; 3. The great transformation of embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology Jens Beckert; 4. The critique of the economic point of view: Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians Philippe Steiner; 5. Towards an alternative economy: reconsidering the market, money and value Jean-Michel Servet; 6. Money in the making of world society Keith Hart; 7. Debt, violence and impersonal markets: Polanyian meditations David Graeber; 8. Whatever happened to householding? Chris Gregory; 9. Contesting The Great Transformation: work in comparative perspective Gerd Spittler; 10. 'Sociological Marxism' in Central India: Polanyi, Gramsci and the case of the unions Jonathan Parry; 11. Composites, fictions and risk: towards an ethnography of price Jane I. Guyer; 12. Illusions of freedom: Polanyi and the third sector Catherine Alexander; 13. Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica James Carrier; 14. Embedded socialism? Land, labour and money in eastern Xinjiang Chris Hann; 15. Afterword: learning from Polanyi 2 Don Robotham.