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Reading Karl Polanyi for the twenty-first century

Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, this title argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and knowledge are commodities.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 284 pages

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