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t. e. Karl Paul Polanyi ( / poʊˈlænji /; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964), [1] was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician, [2] best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets. [3]
Apr 19, 2024 · Karl Polanyi (born Oct. 25, 1886, Vienna, Austria—died April 23, 1964, Pickering, Ont., Can.) was an economic anthropologist and former Hungarian political leader. In college in Budapest Polanyi founded the radical Club Galilei, which would have far-reaching effects on Hungarian intellectual life. He qualified as a lawyer in 1912 and served ...
Apr 6, 2021 · Karl Polanyi was born in Vienna, Austria in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Pictured here is the destruction of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna during World War II, during which his book The Great Transformation was published. (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)
e. The Great Transformation is a book by Karl Polanyi, a Hungarian political economist. First published in 1944 by Farrar & Rinehart, it deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood ...
The Return of Karl Polanyi. Karl Polanyi, whose ideas took form in 1920s Vienna in direct opposition to the free-market orthodoxy of Ludwig von Mises, has gained belated recognition as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His central argument, contra von Mises, is that a self-regulating economic system is a completely ...
May 29, 2018 · Karl Polanyi (1886—1964), whose concept of substantive economics did much toward integrating the study of economics with that of society more generally, was born in Vienna and grew up in Budapest. He studied law and philosophy in Budapest and later, for a short while, practiced at the bar. In 1908 he helped found the Galilei circle, a center ...
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2014. The economic historian's great work holds a compelling and alternative understanding of the economic and financial crises affecting the economy today; an alternative to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx or Friedrich Hayek.
