Full Employment and Free Trade

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Full Employment and Free Trade is an influential economic treatise by Michael Polanyi that explores how to achieve full employment within a liberal market economy without resorting to central planning.

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instanceOf book
economic treatise
advocates government responsibility for aggregate demand
maintenance of market price mechanism
aim to reconcile economic security with individual freedom
to show how to achieve full employment without central planning
author Michael Polanyi
circaPageCount approximately 150–200 pages
countryOfPublication United Kingdom
field economics
political economy
genre non-fiction
hasPart Full Employment and Free Trade self-linksurface differs
surface form: “Full Employment and Free Trade” (essay section)

“The Common Man’s Masterplan”
“The Essentials of a Free Society”
“The Planning of Freedom”
historicalContext World War II
surface form: Second World War

post‑Great Depression economic debates
influenced discussions on welfare state and market coordination
post-war debates on economic planning
influencedBy Keynesian economics
classical liberalism
language English
mainTopic anti‑central planning
business cycle
economic liberalism
fiscal policy
free trade
full employment
liberal market economy
macroeconomic policy
monetary policy
unemployment
notableFor early liberal response to Keynesian planning proposals
integration of economic analysis with political philosophy
opposes comprehensive central economic planning
philosophicalContext Polanyi’s theory of tacit knowledge and spontaneous order (background)
liberalism
positionOnCentralPlanning rejects central planning as incompatible with freedom
positionOnEmploymentPolicy supports active macroeconomic policy to prevent mass unemployment
positionOnTrade supports free international trade
proposes monetary stabilization to secure full employment
publicationYear 1945
publisher Cambridge University Press
relatedWork The Great Transformation
surface form: The Great Transformation (by Karl Polanyi, often compared)

The Logic of Liberty

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Michael Polanyi notableWork Full Employment and Free Trade
Full Employment and Free Trade hasPart Full Employment and Free Trade self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: “Full Employment and Free Trade” (essay section)