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Microanalysis holds sway over macroanalysis in contemporary criminology. All of criminology would be better off if greater attention were devoted to the big picture—the relationship between crime and the interplay of institutions in the social systems of whole societies. Microlevel researchers often assume that the reduction of individual criminal propensities leads ipso facto to reductions in aggregate crime rates, but the implied connection is illusive, has not been demonstrated, and is...

This essay sheds light on the neoliberal aspects of the Italian political-economic system exemplified in the relationship between capital, state and media. The main argument is that the specific marriage between neoliberalism and neocorporatism that characterizes Italy reveals a distinctive characteristic of neoliberalism: a class project relying heavily on the state. As Polanyi has suggested through the concept of 'embeddedness', capitalism has consistently developed through the double...

Karl Polanyi is the author of a modern social science classic, The Great Transformation, as well as a number of well-known and widely debated essays collected in Trade and Market in the Early Empires and Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economies. These texts were researched and written either during his second exile in 1930s Britain or in wartime or post-war North America. Not so well known, however, are his Hungarian writings from the 1910s. Until recently, very few of these had been...

Darwin said all living things tend to multiply. However, nowadays, maintaining fertility rate below the replacement level of 2.1, human beings appear to have opted to let their population shrink. Perplexingly, it occurs while the environment seems to become more suitable for their survival. In solving this puzzle, we get a great help from Polanyi. We proved that people choose to have fewer babies and consequently, usher in depopulation, because by giving them the chance to assess all the...

Most analyses of the US financial crisis of 2007–2009 focus on the proximate causes. This article sees the crisis as a consequence of the decline of a long-term pattern of accumulation in the USA and seeks to outline the requirements for a new period of dynamic economic growth. Drawing on work done by the French Regulation theorists and the US analysts of Social Structures of Accumulation, the paper attempts to describe the types of institutional changes that would be needed to spark a new...

The coexistence of border-enforcement policies such as Operation Gatekeeper and economic liberalization programs such as NAFTA is arguably paradoxical given the simultaneous push towards afree flow of products but curtailed flow of labor. This paper presents a critical review and reassement of existing accounts of neoliberal statehood to make sense of this apparent puzzle. While some have argued that the state is eroding under neoliberal globalization, a more sophisticated analysis has...

The article aims to bring evidence that the solidarity economic undertakings, based on voluntary association, productive cooperation and self-management, employ a unique rationality, different from the capitalistic one. Classical authors such as Schumpeter, Polanyi and Weber, besides some scholars dedicated to the solidarity economy or to micro-entrepreneurship, such as Laville, Portela and Hespanha, give us a theoretical framework, which is used to review the concept of entrepreneurship and...

This article addresses the potential for food movements to bring about substantive changes to the current global food system. After describing the current corporate food regime, we apply Karl Polanyi's 'double-movement' thesis on capitalism to explain the regime's trends of neoliberalism and reform. Using the global food crisis as a point of departure, we introduce a comparative analytical framework for different political and social trends within the corporate food regime and global food...

The article offers information on the features that contribute to the modernization in Russia. It discusses various value structure theories from various persons. It says that from the analysis of world survey statistics, Yevgeny Yasin concluded that Russians are more conservative compared to other western countries. Details regarding the mentality of Russian people are discussed including Russians' high score on cycloid scale and their tendency to fulfill their task at the last moment....

This chapter contains sections titled: * Clashing Models of Capitalism: Hayek VS. Polanyi * Market Liberalism's Return: From the “Not Quite Golden Age” to the “Great U - Turn” * Hegemonic Neoliberalism: From Crest to Crisis to Emphatic Reassertion(?) * Capitalism at the Point of Inflection: Neoliberalism's Wake * Conclusion * References

KM translate: "The economic sophistry" and "The two meanings of" economic "", short writings by Karl Polanyi published here partially in a version taken from the French magazine MAUSS, represent a wonderful example of critical synthesis and set of depth of analysis, an analysis that comes to the conviction of the anthropological and social disaster caused not only by liberalism, but even more by the fallacy of an entire system of thought, economic science, which seeks to justify and support...

Karl Polanyi, who was born in 1886 in Vienna and died in 1964 in Pickering, Ontario remains a most influential theoretical figure in the social sciences, in particular stimulating both analytical and policy-related concerns that are related with the new institutionalism in economics, sociology and political science. Polanyian insights on the political economy of economic development from an institutional perspective have persistently shaped a variety of discourses that range from the theory...

This article is a reflection on the perspectives of feminism in the context of the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism. It is based on the theories of Karl Polanyi that explained the historical process of the crises as a result of the conflict between two elements – marketization and social protection. However, Polanyi Kept out of sight forms of injustice that are not present in the market. He also had the tendency to excuse the social protection as an instrument of domination. This...

BOOK ABSTRACT: Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system...

The patterns and impact of globalization have become a common concern of all international jurists, sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers. Many have observed the erosion of the powers of nation states and the emergence of new transnational governance regimes, and seek to understand their internal dynamics, re-regulatory potential, and normative quality. Karl Polanyi's seminal book - The Great Transformation - is attracting new attention to such endeavors, mirroring a growing...

RésuméEn dépit de l’absence d’un exposé économique systématique dans l’œuvre de Sartre, nous soutenons qu’il y a bien une économie sartrienne, même si celle-ci est encore à développer. Le statut que Sartre réserve à la « rareté » lui permet de faire un pas supplémentaire vers la critique de l’économisme par rapport à celui déjà effectué par Karl Polanyi, qui s’est contenté de récuser la confusion entretenue entre l’économique et sa définition formelle. La rareté, nous enseigne Sartre, ne...

Within the context of the New Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi is almost universally considered the "father" of the concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its relationship to the remaining theoretical edifice constructed by Polanyi has been neglected. It is, in fact, possible to refer to the "great transformation" to which the concept of embeddedness has been subjected: whereas in Polanyi’s work it is associated with...

"Cette étude présente le parcours intellectuel de Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), à la croisée de l'économie, de l'histoire et de la sociologie, et propose une synthèse de l'ensemble de son oeuvre." Postface accessible en ligne : [ http://www.contretemps.eu/lectures/bonnes-feuilles-avez-vous-lu-polanyi-j%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-maucourant-postface ]

This paper turns Karl Polanyi's concept of the "double movement" back on Polanyi and his intellectual contemporary, Friedrich Hayek, as a means to insight into the structural conditions of counter-movement in the second half of the 20th Century. After elaborating on the double movement concept, I contrast the trajectory of Polanyi and his greatest work, The Great Transformation, with that of Friedrich Hayek and his contemporaneous Road to Serfdom--treating each as protagonists in the...

Özet: 20. yüzyılın önde gelen iktisatçılarından olan Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), Büyük Dönüşüm adlı eserinde ortaya koyduğu özgün tezler ile halen kapitalizme en ciddi eleştiriyi getirmiş kişilerden biri kabul edilmektedir. Polanyi'nin klasik ENG: Karl Polanyi is known as one of the most famous economists of the world who strongly criticized liberalism and the idea of self-regulating market. Polanyi’s masterpiece The Great Transformation is still accepted as one of the most powerful...