Karl Polanyi

Nicolas Postel () and Richard Sobel ()
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Nicolas Postel: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Richard Sobel: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: A Jewish intellectual from Mitteleuropa between the wars who was forced to flee Nazism, Karl Polanyi (1886 - 1964) is the author of a multi-disciplinary body of work that enables us to rethink the economy in its unsurpassable social and ecological context. In the aftermath of the Second World War, he provided the keys to understanding what led to the collapse of European societies in the 1920s and 1930s. His conviction is firm: fascism is a consequence of economic liberalism, and therefore the epilogue to the upheaval caused by the development of a capitalist system that intended to organize the world on the sole basis of a self-regulating market logic. While a "great transformation" of the post-war institutional framework partially contained and regulated this logic, the advent of neo-liberalism at the turn of the 1980s reignited the commodification movement and reactivated the risk of collapse

Date: 2024-09-01
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Published in Que sais-je ? / Humensis, pp.128, 2024

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