Karl Polanyi and the writing of The Great Transformation

By F. Block. 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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4. P. Evans
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8. G. Curry

Citations in the corpus

• Is an Alternative Globalization Possible? (2008, background): “Neither would Polanyi.”
• For Polanyian Economic Geographies (2013, background): “For Fred Block (2003) the more expansive Polanyian framework found its ultimate, if still subdued, methodological expression in the notion of the ‘always embedded economy’, one that he associates with an alleged trimming away from (at least orthodox) Marxism, more or less from the second half of…”
• Fake capitalism? The dynamics of neoliberal moral restructuring and pseudo-development: the case of Uganda (2010, background): “All economies are moral economies in the sense that all economic orders, relations and practices have moral dimensions, preconditions and implications (Block 2003 , Sayer 2007 ).”
• Economic Sociologies in Space (2005, background): “…of specifically national systems and around the “tightness” (or 11 These contemporary analyses of a neoliberalizing international economy echo Polanyi’s work on the responses of different (national) market societies to the pressure of the Gold Standard regime (see Block 2003; Burawoy 2003).”
• Economic patriotism: reinventing control over open markets (2012, methodology): “The conception of state–market relations underlying this analysis of economic patriotism is informed by Karl Polanyi’s work and economic sociology, both insisting on the inescapably embedded nature of market activity (Block 2003; Block and Evans 2005).”
• Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy (2013, background): “…too static and under-emphasizes that an embedded economy can be understood as a dynamic, historically contingent and social variable which can be thick or thin, depending on institutional, social and market related factors (Barber, 1995; Block and Polanyi, 2003; Granovetter, 1985, Krippner, 2001).”
• Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness (2004, background): “As I struggled to think about these issues it did force me to go back to The Great Transformation, and try to tease out more carefully what Polanyi’s own argument was, and the complexity and difficulty that we’ve all had attempting to appropriate it in some reasonable way.”
• Karl Polanyi and the antinomies of embeddedness (2007, background): “Several commentaries on Polanyi observe this ambiguity (Garlan, 1973; Jenkins, 1977; Dupré and Philippe-Rey, 1978; Lie, 1991; Booth, 1994; Barber, 1995; Krippner, 2001; Block, 2003).”
• Moral economy: Rethinking a radical concept (2016, background): “For him, the role of the state as a coercing force plays a central role (Lie, 1991; Block, 2003; Bolton and Laaser, 2013).”
• Moving Beyond Postdevelopment: Facilitating Indigenous Alternatives for “Development” (2003, background): “Karl Polanyi (1944, 1957; for an overview, see Block 2001, 2002) pioneered this approach, and it is useful to return briefly to his ideas, for they have much relevance for the present argument.”