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Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets.In his writings, Polanyi advances the concept of the Double Movement, which refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketizatio…
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culture · Economist, philosopher and historian (1886–1964) · economist · anthropologist · economic historian · historian · journalist · philosopher · writer · university teacher · sociologist · also Karl Polanyi, Károly Pollacsek, Karoly Pollacsek, Polanyi
Born 25 October 1886 · Died 23 April 1964 · Q318029
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I think there was some xenophobia and suspicion about him as an outsider, a foreigner with a funny-sounding name. There was probably prejudice, there was probably some antisemitism. And there was certainly some snobbery towards him. He should have walked into those jobs.
The End of Market Fundamentalism
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“I think there was some xenophobia and suspicion about him as an outsider, a foreigner with a funny-sounding name. There was probably prejudice, there was probably some antisemitism. And there was certainly some snobbery towards him. He should have walked into those jobs.”
Concordia University: Karl Polanyi: ‘He’s one of our big thinkers’
“The End of Market Fundamentalism”
Died 1964-04-23.
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Teaching a series of five timely lectures on the "Present Age of Transformation"
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Where he joined the faculty at Bennington College and later taught at Columbia University
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Where he earned a living as a journalist and tutor and obtained a position as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association in 1936
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When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and fascism was ascendant in Austria
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When the right-wing authoritarian regime of Admiral Horthy seized power
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Helped found the National Citizens' Radical Party of Hungary and served as its secretary
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Born 1886-10-25.
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