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Polanyi argued that the project of creating a fully self-regulating market was utopian, in the sense of impossible. However, movement towards this utopia, the ever greater but never completed process of disembedding the economy from both society and nature, creates growing dislocations and tensions which call forth a counter movement. This double movement may be thought of as successive changes in the way in which the economic process is instituted. The focus of the paper is on the meaning...

Presents views of scholar Karl Polanyi on economic integration. Views of Polanyi on modern capitalist society; Distinction between external, local and internal markets by Polanyi. The three forms of economic integration include reciprocity, redistribution, and exchange. The article discusses Polyani's book "The Great Transformation," the development of market economies, the self-regulating market, some of the writings of Max Weber, big businesses, the efficiency of the market system, and...

Presents the perspective of philosopher Karl Polanyi on economic change. Works of Polanyi on the topic; Analysis of pre-modern economies by Polanyi. According to Jeffrey Nugent, institutions make social life fairly predictable by restricting some actions and providing incentives for other actions. The article discusses Polanyi's book "The Great Transformation," the self-regulating market economy, scarcity, individual choice, economic development in India, trust in India's corporate...

Discusses various conceptions of law. Concept of law as an epiphenomenon of underlying structures; Views of economist Karl Marx on law. Discusses doctrine of individualism, constitutive role of law, property rights, contracts, the emergence of law, social ontology, the relations of individuals with social structures, self-organizing institutions, self-enforcement, Karl Polyani's view that self-regulating markets are unattainable, rule of law, social reality, and how the nature of legal...

Focuses on the issue of moral philosophy and economic sociology. Views of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre on morality; Works on morality. Discusses morality in social science, Karl Polyani's writings on the social context of economic change, Marxist socialism, human cooperation, social relations, self-interest, moral responsibility, market order, public ownership, redistributive taxation, social welfare, Max Weber's ethic of responsibility, and the connections between MacIntyre's and...

Focuses on the creation of the European market for mobile telephony. Merits of the global system for mobile communications; Reasons for the emergence for a market for mobile telephony. Discusses the socio-economic factors that influenced the development of the mobile telephony market, the writings of Karl Polyani, instituted process, the process of standardization, digital technology, European telecommunications during the 1980s, and the development of market structure in the global...

Focuses on the presentation 'Polanyian Perspectives on Instituted Economic Processes, Development and Transformation' at an international workshop held at Manchester, Connecticut. Organizer of the workshop; Theme of the workshop. The workshop was organized by the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition. The article discusses varieties of capitalism, supply and demand, price formation, competition, economic motives, market economy, and the book "The Great Transformation," by Karl...

Kari Polanyi Levitt has commented that her father's writing was met with a 'deafening silence' in England, a silence which she suggests is 'yet to be explained'. Given The Great Transformation was purposefully, situated in England Polanyi Levitt's point is an interesting one, and one which still deserves attention. But the last two decades have witnessed an intensification of interest in Karl Polanyi's methodological approach and theoretical insights, from England as well as elsewhere, and...

Karl Polanyi’s 1944 book, The Great Transformation , has been recognized as central for the field of economic sociology, but it has not been subject to the same theoretical scrutiny as other classic works in the field. This is a particular problem in that there are central tensions and complexities in Polanyi’s argument. This article suggests that these tensions can be understood as a consequence of Polanyi’s changing theoretical orientation. The basic outline of the book was developed in...

Analyzes the Marxist concept of society to interpret the rise and fall of communist orders, the shift from politics of class to politics of recognition, the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism and the development of an emergent transnationalism. Relationship between sociology and Marxism; Genesis of a sociological Marxism; Theorists of society and socialism.

Provides an overview of some critical moments in the history of liberal capitalism as perceived by some historical witnesses. Views of brothers Max and Alfred Weber on the world economy before 1914; Historical parallels to the introduction of euro bills and coins in January 2002; Access of Germany to the world market for demographic and geographic reasons.

Presents a comparative analysis of the double movement of the belle époque and collapse of British hegemony with the double movement of the late 20th and early 21st century belle époque and current crisis of U.S. hegemony. Emphasis on the book 'The Great Transformation,' by Karl Polanyi; Liberal crusade for free markets in the 1830s and 1840s; Role of Great Britain as the central entrepôt of world commerce and finance.

Bu makalede kresellesmenin ekonomik ve siyasi alanda sebep oldugu yeniden blsm (redistribution) incelenmektedir. Yazarin iddiasina gre, kresellesmeyie birlikte ekonomik alanda imalat sanayiinin, basta nc dnya lkeleri olmak zere, kresel dzlemdeki cografi yayilisina mukabil finans sektrnn merkezilesmesinde grlen yeni bir esit sosyo-ekonomik hiyerarsi ortaya ikmistir. Ekonomik alandaki bu yeniden yapilanmanin ve ortaya ikan bu "yeni hiyerarsi" nin sonucu olarak, siyasi alanda da kresellesmenin...

One of the great dilemmas of the information age is the tension between two dynamics: (1) the tendency of information to be free-flowing and not to lose its value as it moves and (2) the tendency to want to control that flow of information in order to profit from its value. In 1944, Karl Polanyi identified similar contradictions in the industrial revolution, except the flowing material was capital instead of information. He spent a lifetime exposing what he felt to be the negative...

There is a growing consensus in comparative political economy that 'globalization' is not eliminating the distinctive character of specific nation-states. Even in Europe, where formal integration between countries is most profound, nation-states remain idiosyncratic. Starting from this consensus, the questions I ask are: (a) how can we explain the coincidence of national idiosyncrasy and international integration; (b) what does our explanation tell us about processes of European integration?...

Jacket abstract: "Democracy and the Global System analyses the relationship between liberal democracy and the global system while developing a critique of liberal internationalism. Fabian Biancardi examines some of the key questions of modern politics and the major ideas of a number of significant authors and texts, including Barrington Moore Jr., Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Samuel Huntington and David Held. While sympathetic to the aim of spreading liberal democracy globally, he...

KM: a section focuses on Polanyi's analysis of the social and political construction of markets and of "market society" in Europe, and then discusses the extent to which this type of analysis can be applied to the formation of global markets in the late twentieth century. It then looks at gender dimensions and the tension between the assumptions of economic rationality associated with market behaviour and the real-life experiences of women and men. Beneria then extends this analysis to the...

This article reviews two books about the thoughts of economist Karl Polanyi including "The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi," edited by Kari Polanyi-Levitt, and "Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of the Great Transformation," edited by Kenneth McRobbie and Polanyi-Levitt.

Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe, and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small and medium scale conflicts often ignored by researchers and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. This book revisits the historical...