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THE LIMITS OF A MARKET SOCIETY Or: Why ‘Polanyi ought to be considered the (most influential) personality of our century’.
ОглавлениеBRIGITTE AULENBACHER, VERONIKA HEIMERL, ANDREAS NOVY
In his appraisal of Karl Polanyi’s works, internationally renowned French economist Robert Boyer states that ‘Polanyi ought to be considered the (most influential) personality of our century’. What makes his cultural, social and economic history of capitalism so relevant for today? In his magnum opus, The Great Transformation, published in 1944, Polanyi studied 19th-century economic liberalism, the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, as well as the struggle between communism, fascism and democracy for a new social order. Why was there a rediscovery of these reflections from the late 1980s onward – and especially following 1989 – in the context of a new phase of globalisation? And is it legitimate to speak of a veritable Polanyi renaissance today? There are four aspects in particular that highlight why Polanyi’s critique of capitalism is so unique.
