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This paper assesses some of the implications of one of the major social changes to have taken place in the West during the second half of the twentieth century — that is, the increased employment of women, together with normative changes in gender relations and in women's expectations. These changes have been linked to an increase in individualism, which itself is associated with the transcendence of ‘first modernity’. Thus it is suggested that new approaches to social analysis are required...

The paper seeks to investigate, from a methodological and ontological perspective, different ways of theorizing the third sphere--the set of activities that can be captured by neither the price mechanism of the markets nor by governmental transactions. The first aim is to elucidate the constitutive elements of the third sphere by deploying Polanyi's forms of integration (reciprocity, redistribution, and exchange). The second is to survey the ontologically individualist and methodologically...

This article presents Karl Polanyi's analysis of the dynamic relationships between economy and society in the information age. Of the many concepts Karl Polanyi provides in his analysis of economic relations, three stand as carefully calculated assumptions about the relationship between society and economy: the embeddedness of information in society, the commoditization of information and the existence of a double movement in the information revolution. Information has always been embedded...

This short paper discusses how some of Karl Polanyi's key ideas can help shed light on the processes of development and crisis in the world today. It begins by taking up the role of economic liberalisation and the state. Then it discusses Polanyi's identification of the 'impulse' for 'social protection' and suggests it is crucial to an understanding not only of the role of the state in development but also politics in the developing world. It finishes by applying some of these ideas to...

Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their possession. Blyth analyzes the 1930s and 1970s, two periods of deep-seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century. Viewing both periods of change as part of the same dynamic, Blyth argues that the 1930s labor reacted...

The last decade has seen a revived interest in using anomie theory in crime and deviance research. The present paper contributes to this development by offering an examination of a particular extension of anomie theory, namely, Messner and Rosenfeld's Institutional-Anomie theory. Explicating Institutional-Anomie theory relative to the sociologies of Durkheim, Merton and Polanyi, I find that this theory goes beyond Merton by using a strain of thought that is critical of liberal society. By...

Challenging contemporary debates concerning the regulation of ocean fisheries, this paper deploys theoretical insights developed by Karl Polanyi. In The Great Transformation, Polanyi documented the consequences of the establishment of market economy upon European society, and thereby upon the entire planet. The concept of the self-regulating market, according to Polanyi was based on three "commodity fictions" of land, labor and money; the extension of this concept to all of the economic...

Examines the views of neoclassicist Friedrich A. Hayek, sociologist Emile Durkheim and Karl Polanyi on liberalism. Relationship between the individual, the market economy and society; Features of Hayekian neoclassical economics; Information on Polanyi's book 'The Great Transformation.'

ENGLISH: In the last few years the interest in Karl Polanyi's work has been growing between 1920 and 1945, and with only a few exceptions they are difficult or impossible to access. The articles, essays, and manuscripts written in Vienna and England are not only the result of intensive studies during the central years of the author's life, but they are also the main part of his work. In this work, Polanyi analyzes a period decisive for the development of the twentieth century. The writings...

This paper suggests that the firm can be analysed as a regulated system of contested sovereignty. The economic literature on the firm is categorised in terms of four different perspectives on sovereignty identified using the twin factors of power and authority. But rather than any single perspective being identified as analytically superior, it is argued that a system of contested sovereignty should be based on all four perspectives. Following this, a Polanyi-inspired analysis of firm...

An important characteristic of public policy formulation over the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the English-speaking countries, has been the increasing use of contractual principles as regulatory tools. The 'new contractualism' represents the recent re-emergence and adaptation of the social contract of the 17th and 18th centuries and the classical legal contract that emerged in the 19th century. The work of Anna Yeatman provides the most cogent and influential, non-neo-liberal scholarly...

Discusses a Polanyian approach to environmental planning, foregrounding the concept of ecosocialization. Global problems of urban modernity; Ecological modernization and the transformation of capitalism; Discussion on ecological Marxism and the transition to socialism; Polanyian perspective for environmental planning.

An outline of a theory of values-based labeling as a social movement argues that it is motivated by the need to re-embed the agro-food economy in the larger social economy. A review of some basic premises of embeddedness theories derived from the work of Karl Polanyi reveals their connection to particular values-based labeling efforts. From this perspective, values-based labeling presents itself as primarily an ethical and moral effort to counter unsustainable trends within presently...

The author critiques the expedient application of market valuation principles by the transnational corporations and other large firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry on a number of issues like patents, pricing, irrational drugs, clinical trials, etc. He contends that ethics in business is chiseled and etched within the confines of particular social structures of accumulation. An ascendant neo-liberal social structure of accumulation has basically shaped these firms' sharp opposition to...

RésuméDifférents travaux ont délivré des méthodologies et des données quantifiant l’apport du bénévolat en temps et en argent. Ces préoccupations amènent, dans le sillage des travaux de Karl Polanyi, à appréhender l’économie de manière substantive comme la dépendance de l’homme par rapport à la nature et à ses semblables. Une telle analyse montre qu’il n’y a pas nécessairement une concurrence entre ces différents registres économiques mais qu’une hybridation des ressources peut se mettre en...

RésuméLes notions d’encastrement et de savoirs tacites sont souvent utilisées dans des théories expliquant les effets de proximité spatiale dans les relations entre la recherche académique et les entreprises. Même si elles ont des origines proches (ne serait-ce que parce qu’elles ont été formulées à l’origine par deux frères, Karl et Michael POLANYI), elles ont des implications très différentes en ce qui concerne l’interprétation des effets de proximité. Dans un cas (l’encastrement), on peut...

Explores the role of markets in achieving social well-being in Latin America, highlighting alternatives theories for this relationship based on the work of Karl Polanyi. Role of markets in reducing poverty; Relation between markets and social institutions; Ways in which market liberalization is damaging the livelihoods of the poor.

Examines the relationship between democracy and development to set the scene for the pressing contemporary issue of how globalization might affect democracy and vice versa. Reference to the work of Karl Polanyi who posited a dual movement of market expansion matched by increasing social control over it; Impact of globalization.

This article presents information on the construction of market institutions in Russia and includes the institutional conception provided by analyst Karl Polanyi. Polanyi's main ideas will be expounded in regard to his interest in analyzing the transition. These ideas will be adapted to the object of study and then specified so that they will be efficient criteria for analyzing the present economic transition. Second, the results obtained will be applied to the Russian case, and an attempt...