The Great Transformation
work by Polanyi
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discussed in biography
- In Karl Polanyi
The Great Transformation (1944) concentrated on the development of the market economy in the 19th century, with Polanyi presenting his belief that this form of economy was so socially divisive that it had no long-term future. The second volume, Trade and Markets in the Early…
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embeddedness
- In embeddedness: Origins
In The Great Transformation (1944) he analyzed the consequences of the 18th- and 19th-century expansion of capitalism—namely, the effort to create an economic sphere increasingly separate from noneconomic institutions that would function only to maximize profit. Polanyi argued that before the 19th century the economic system…
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