ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 (“Transcending the Double Movement”) offers a speculative discussion of what a feasible institutional design for transcending the double movement in the twenty first century might entail. I believe that decommodification, which once animated social policy in the 1970s, will need to be rediscovered and reconceptualised as the critical principle for a new social protection. Inspired by Polanyi’s concept of “complex freedom” and his speculations about a post-market future, I trace five institutional principles of a reconstructed framework for decommodification − boundary protection, enhanced public good provision, decommodified economic circuits, new forms of social protection, and market transparency − and investigate the extent to which it represents a Polanyian agenda for egalitarianism and emancipation.
