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This article advances Rodrik's political trilemma of the world economy by using insights from Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, which helps to grasp the interwoven dynamics of long-term transformations due to climate change and geopolitical reordering on one hand, and on the other short-term political ruptures due to countermovements. Rodrik's globalization trilemma shows the incompatibility of hyperglobalization with the need for an enlarged democratic policy space. Its nodes...
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The article proposes to address the current discussions about national capitalism and the Argentine economy from a set of canonical ideas of the work of Karl Polanyi. Argentina, which for several decades has been going through recurring crises in its economic model, awakens a plurality of voices from social scientists and specialized journalists who debate the problems, limitations and projections of national capitalism. For this, we have surveyed these discussions, to a greater extent, from...
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Happiness economics unearths the undesirable effects of economic growth and criticizes the economic model based on the belief in the supremacy of market relations over the relational bonds of society. Economic growth brings about substantial increases in material well-being; yet, it has the potential to destroy the social and environmental fabric of society. This is visible in the post-World War II cross-country variability of the subjective well-being measures, which shows the importance of...
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Neoliberalism has been able to change the markets and the economy of societies around the world. These transformations are especially important with regards to fictitious commodities: land, labor, and money. However, the 2020 pandemic imposes new limits, when life itself is at risk globally. This work highlights the major neoliberal reforms relating to fictitious commodities, the difficulties of society to resist and create counterweights. The health crisis that has emerged with the COVID-19...
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Capitalism is a social relation that cannot be reduced to the characteristics associated with it - markets, private property, profit and profit orientation. This relation can be shaped in different ways. The article refers to Karl Polanyi’s idea of the ›always embedded market economy‹ in order to develop basic characteristics of an example of post-capitalist economic ethics. Alternate abstract: Der Kapitalismus ist ein soziales Verhältnis, das sich nicht auf die mit ihm in Verbindung...
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The article deals with the first stage of the market economic system - the traditional market economy. The traditional market economy is considered in the assessment of its main researchers. The main goal of the study is to identify the main characteristics and features of the traditional economy, which would explain the absence of pronounced cyclical elements in it. It is assumed that several essential elements of such an economy carry the strongest countercyclical potential. The article...
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The welfare system was meant to reduce the 9 vulnerability of citizens to the market, thereby containing the consequences of the market economy and labor commodification. [...] As an adaptation to the consequences of the market, the welfare system is an effort to cushion the effects of the market, not a change its underlying logic of commodification. [...] From this perspective, the political debates about the rules to be applied to the operations of the platform economy are part of the...
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Una pregunta clave que surge de la pandemia de coronavirus es qué se requiere para hacer de esta fase temporal un camino hacia el cambio transformador. O, como sucedió en gran medida después de la crisis financiera de 2008, ¿volverá la sociedad a una economía dominada por el crecimiento y cargada de carbono basada en una ética del individualismo radical y el consumismo desenfrenado, informada por recetas neoliberales? Este artículo se basa en el trabajo de Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) para...
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Les analyses de Felix Schafer, alors le plus proche collaborateur de Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), permettent de comprendre un débat entamé en 1922 à Vienne entre Polanyi et Ludwig von Mises (qui était alors le représentant le plus célèbre de l’école autrichienne). Les enjeux de leur opposition devaient structurer la pensée polanyienne en son entier. Dans les décennies suivantes, notamment les années 1940-1950 aux États-Unis, c’est en esquissant une approche de type sociologique que Polanyi...
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Este ensayo pretende demostrar cómo el mercado autorregulado que pregonael neoliberalismo es una falacia y que tiende tarde que temprano a acabar odestruir las propias condiciones sociales, ambientales y culturales que aseguranla vida en el planeta. Basado en una globalización financierista, en la privatización yen la liberalización de mercado, ese modelo se ha convertido en la mayor fábrica deempobrecidos, logrando cooptar y subordinar a los Estados a sus designios a travésde las grandes...
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With the contemporary crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of illiberalism in the aftermath of the global financial crisis we need a theoretical framework that links modernization, crises and the fate of democracy. In my paper I attempt to show that Polanyi’s thinking represents such a framework. I focus on Polanyi’s historically informed political economic analysis of the tensions between liberal finance and liberal democracy. In the first section I reconstruct Polanyi’s political...
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This article is devoted to the evaluation of the institutional matrices theory (IMT), which was designed to illustrate the differences between Russian and Western political economic systems. IMT has no matrix, and it is an ideological declaration rather than a theory. It is a set of assertions and assumptions that are adopted without evidence, and then hypostatized to be Russian and Western socioeconomic systems. IMT literature claims to utilize the reciprocity, redistribution, and exchange...
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How can we explain why Karl Polanyi's book The Great Transformation is more relevant today than ever before? The central thesis of the paper is that Polanyi's analysis is groundbreaking because it goes far beyond the interpretation of the civilization of the nineteenth century. By focusing on the "belief of economic determinism," Polanyi challenges the juxtaposition of being and thinking, of material life-process and consciousness. He rejects the assumption that society encompasses a world...