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This paper outlines a ‘substantivist’ approach to the regional economy of the Pilbara in Western Australia, inspired by a constructive reinterpretation of Karl Polanyi's methodological legacy. Beyond the metaphor of embeddedness, it makes the case for a more wide-ranging methodological engagement with Polanyi's brand of substantivist socioeconomics, in dialogue with the empirical investigation of actually existing and variegated socioeconomic formations. A Polanyian optic, amongst other...

In light of the spread of markets across the globe and deeper into daily life, this paper argues for a more robust analysis and application of Karl Polanyi's conception of (dis)embedded markets coupled with the performativity thesis authored mainly by Michel Callon. It suggests that while disembeddedness as a concept is necessary for an analysis of contemporary financial markets that are increasingly self-referential, it is not sufficient. Despite the suggestion of a gulf between Polanyian...

The paper provides an introduction to a theme issue devoted to the influence—and the potential—of the work of Karl Polanyi in the field of economic geography. Polanyi has been an inspirational figure in the heterodox field of ‘socioeconomics’, where the inseparability of the economic and the social is taken to be axiomatic. He has also made recurrent appearances in economic geography since the early 1990s, as a progenitor of the ‘networks and embeddedness’ approach and in his role as a...

Karl Polanyi has been an influential but also somewhat elusive figure in economic geography. Best known for his evocative notion of social embeddedness, it is perhaps fitting that Polanyi's presence has been more metaphorical than substantive. The paper asks what a more engaged Polanyian economic geography might look like. Focusing on methodological affinities, a response is developed in terms of a commitment to the substantivist (as opposed to formal) analysis of actually existing economic...

In this paper, informed by more-than-human and biosecurity literatures, I attend a neglected nonhuman considered a serious agricultural pest: the fruit fly. In addressing what it takes to live without fruit flies, biosecurity is theorised as ongoing, enacted achievement sustained (or not) by everyday and eventful interactions of heterogeneous spaces, strategies, and participants—human and nonhuman. Relations of fruits, flies, and people are explored through one vital attempt to biosecure...

Now is an important moment to be thinking and talking about a critical and normative green political economy. Whether via attempts to develop effective and socially just climate policies at multiple scales of governance [including REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) schemes], or to develop proliferating and controversial neoliberal instruments for dealing with undesirable environmental change, environmental governance, and environmental change in the context of...

This paper explores the dynamics of institutional change in periods of instability in the global capitalist system. Two recent bodies of literature—actor-centered institutionalism and the ‘policy mobilities’ approach—emphasize how contextual and historical specificities drive transformation as institutions move across space. However, scholars in both traditions give less attention to the systematic patterns of social conflict that influence how policies move and mutate. Drawing on the case...

This paper proposes a neo-Polanyian framework of neoliberalization-as-marketization for understanding geohistorically embedded marketization based on five interlinked theoretical conceptualizations: embedded marketization, hybrid integration, double movement, active society, and qualitative state. I argue that this framework can be useful to supplement existing theorizing of neoliberalism, and to facilitate comparative case studies across vastly differently contexts. This framework is then...

The author offers his opinion on Hungarian historian Karl Polanyi and the views Karl expressed in a series of letters he sent to his brother Michael Polanyi. In these letters Karl wrote about the Germans attitude towards other Jews and the developing volatile social environment in Budapest, Hungary at the beginning of the 20th Century. He also wrote on the animosity between the Germans and the Jews.

The author offers his opinion on social economic planning and the educational courses available on them. The author states that planning social economy was a part of Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi's policy in early 20th century to stabilize the economic conductions in Hungary at that time. The auditor says that Polanyi's book "the Great transformation" formed the basis. which if acted upon, would have preevented the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

The author offers his views on a controversial fundraising organized by then U.S. Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney in May 2012 where he commented that he won't be bothered about a section of society who only have access to national income but have not contributions or income tax to give. The author cites this as one the reason why Romney was not successful and states that Hungarian Economists Karl Polanyi's socioeconomics theory is relevant in the 21st century.

The author offers his opinion on Hungarian Economist Karl Polanyi's opinion on social economy. The auth through use of recent events such as the Arab Uprising since 2011 and the post communism societies discusses Polanyi's views with those of political economic planners. The author states that social change within a society post the economic recession could have been avoided had Polanyi's views being taken seriously.

The article reviews the book "The Great Transformation," by Karl Polanyi.

The ‘varieties of capitalism’ framework represents an influential methodological innovation in the field of comparative political economy. It seeks to account for enduring spatial variations in national economic performance by recourse to macroinstitutional analysis, drawing ideal-type distinctions between liberal market economies, modeled on USA, and coordinated market economies, modeled on Germany. Moving beyond critiques of varieties literature—for instance, its methodological...

Building on a biopolitical understanding of the economic crisis, this essay contends that the occurrence of the crisis warns that life is not a real commodity but - to put it in Karl Polanyi's terms - a 'fictitious commodity'. This means that life cannot be integrally subsumed within the economy, and therefore the crisis is to be seen as a pathological way in which societies react to the pervasiveness of capitalist relations, showing the illusory character of self-regulating markets and...

One of the major critical claims of this series is that the social and socio-spatial sciences, in their currently dominant form, cannot, for lack of a de-familiarising agenda, one that leads to an appropriate and continually tested strategy (praxis), effectively counter the normalized and naturalized forms and processes of late capitalist urbanization, normalized by mainstream theory in the service of established power, and their extrapolation into a ‘planetary future’. Critical urban theory...