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Karl Polanyi

1886–1964

Also known as: Polanyi

How Karl Polanyi is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 1 other work — including Report .

In Report : Karnik engages Polanyi's 'The Great Transformation' directly, calling Polanyi's characterisation of market society as a 'satanic mill' graphically false and treating Polanyi as the rhetorical resource anti-reform forces still draw from.

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  • Report · 2005
    • "Karnik engages Karl Polanyi's "The Great Transformation" directly, calling Polanyi's characterisation of market society as a "satanic mill" graphically false, and likening the liberal economist's task of persistently arguing for market institutions to Sisyphus condemned to roll a boulder up a mountain." — Karnik treats Polanyi as the canonical anti-market thinker his liberal argument must dismantle
    • "Polanyi's "Great Transformation" is challenged directly as a false romanticisation of pre-market society that has become a rhetorical resource for anti-reform forces." — key-points reprise reaffirms Polanyi as Karnik's named opponent in the institutional-economics debate