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Karl Polanyi and twenty-first century socialism
In recent decades, grassroots movements around the world have mobilized millions of people against the commodification of land, labor, and money that has been central to the project of “free market” globalization. Efforts to build the solidarity and social economy, … Continue reading
Our Obsolete Market Mentality – Civilization Must Find a New Thought Pattern
Karl Polanyi: “The market mechanism moreover created the delusion of economic determinism as a general law for all human society.. To attempt to apply economic determinism to all human societies is little short of fantastic. Nothing is more obvious to … Continue reading
The Power of Market Fundamentalism – Karl Polanyi’s Critique
What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred … Continue reading
Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action
Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private … Continue reading
Polanyi’s Double Movement and the Reconstruction of Critical Theory
This essay will attempt to develop a theoretical reconstruction of Polanyi’s double movement concept – showing the theoretical foundations on which it rests and arguing that this reconstructed theory of the double movement has the potential to be an important … Continue reading
Going Global – The Transnational Politics of the Dalit Movement
This article analyses the involvement of the Dalits (formerly ‘untouchables’) in the World Social Forum (WSF) processes. The focus will be on one networked organization in particular, the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) as a key organization which … Continue reading
Public sociology vs. the market
Building on Karl Polanyi’s theory of a societal reaction to the unregulated exchange of what he called fictitious commodities — labour, money and land — this paper links the history of sociology to the history of the market. If the … Continue reading
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