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“... an Austro-Hungarian journalist who only arrived in Britain at the beginning of 1934.Born in 1886, Karl Polanyi described himself as a Westernised ‘Magyar-Jewish mongrel’ who grew up in the ‘Bloomsbury-on-Danube’ world of the liberal bourgeoisie in Budapest which flourished in the decades before 1914 (György Lukács and ...”

“... The Ancient Economy, first published in 1971, struck a chord. Constructed on models derived from Karl Polanyi and Max Weber, both of whom had exercised a strong influence on Finley in his early career, the book aimed to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of the ancient Greeks and Romans was determined not, as we instinctively assume, by concepts ...”

“... Michael Polanyi lives on in the footnotes. If you want to invoke the idea of ‘tacit knowledge’, Polanyi is your reference of choice. You’ll probably cite his major book Personal Knowledge (1958), maybe the earlier Science, Faith and Society (1946), maybe the later The Tacit Dimension (1966 ...”

“... ago the global financial crisis proved definitively that the EMH is the mother of all grifts. As Karl Polanyi wrote in 1944, ‘to suppose that there exists some smoothly functioning automatic mechanism of adjustment which preserves equilibrium, if only we trust to methods of laissez-faire, is a doctrinaire delusion which disregards the lessons of ...”

“... economists, such as J.A. Schumpeter and Simon Kuznets, not to mention the unclassifiable polymath Karl Polanyi, debates with whom have a central place in the volume. Polanyi argued that the self-regulating market economy had emerged only recently in world history, in the course of the ‘Great Transformation’, as he ...”

“... marks this off as a work of limited intellectual scope. One conspicuously absent authority is Karl Polanyi, whose The Great Transformation, published in 1944, aims perceptively both to locate international politics in their social and economic setting, and to provide an alternative account of the most successful of Kissinger’s grand strategies, the ...”

“... complete self-commitment. Lukacs’s conversion, on this view, is analogous to that of the young Karl Marx: the theorist of alienation converted to Communism under the pressure of political events. And this conversion has been assigned exemplary significance. ‘After Marx,’ Löwy suggests, ‘Lukacs is probably the most important traditional intellectual ...”

“... a third of the total) and a punishing recession, but his actions provoked strong opposition. As Karl Polanyi put it, this was a ‘brilliantly successful operation on Austria’s krone, which the patient, unfortunately, did not survive’. Meddling involved more than cuts and currency policing. After the Turkish-Greek population exchange of 1923, when ...”

“... bankers. They would have understood its obvious function, articulated by the economic historian Karl Polanyi as ‘the site of [mankind’s] habitation … a condition of his physical safety … the landscape and the seasons … only another name for nature’. They would have agreed with Polanyi that we might as ...”

“... was not averse to his anti-Keynesian programme being enforced at the point of a gun. But it is Karl Polanyi, according to Klein, who explains better than Friedman the physical coercion required to establish a market society. Polanyi argues that capitalism can be created only if centrally organised violence is ...”

“... defend. What is less excusable, in Cooper’s view, is that critiques of neoliberalism inspired by Karl Polanyi have looked to the patriarchal family as a source of resistance to the free market, advocating a social democratic model inspired by 1950s Keynesianism in which traditional gender roles regarding duty and care could prosper, unthreatened by ...”

“... and forming the first mass movements in support of democracy. The third book Rogan discusses is Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, published in 1944. The book sought to explain why a long period of peace and stability in Europe ended suddenly and violently with the First World War and the Great ...”

“... political alternatives, it won’t just be Marx’s work that is relegated to the graveyard. Karl Polanyi, the most gifted of the social democratic theorists, has suffered the same fate. We have seen the development of a form of government I call the extreme centre, which currently rules over large tracts of Europe and includes left, centre ...”

“... in substantive historical content, he at times appeared to be an unholy combination of Karl Polanyi and C.P. Snow. The datedness of those names says something about his trajectory as well as about his affinities with a style of brisk Austro-English positivism in social science. And yet that description is itself too brisk, and in particular ...”

“... and draw on a broad range of thinkers on political economy – John Stuart Mill, Braudel, Karl Polanyi, Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Stiglitz – in their critique of the neo-liberal model of growth. In recent years, Cui’s articles in Dushu, a monthly journal of ideas co-edited by Wang Hui, the New Left author of a history of modern Chinese ...”