Karl Polanyi

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Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian economic historian and social theorist best known for his influential work "The Great Transformation," which critiqued market liberalism and analyzed the social and political origins of modern capitalist economies.

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instanceOf economic historian
human
political economist
social theorist
sociologist
authorOf Dahomey and the Slave Trade
The Great Transformation
The Livelihood of Man
Trade and Market in the Early Empires
birthDate 1886-10-25
birthPlace Austria-Hungary
Vienna
countryOfCitizenship Hungary
deathDate 1964-04-23
educatedAt University of Budapest
University of Kolozsvár
ethnicGroup Hungarian
familyName Polanyi
fieldOfWork anthropology of economy
economic history
political economy
social theory
givenName Karl
influenced Karl Marx scholarship
development studies
economic sociology
new economic sociology
political economy of welfare states
world-systems theory
influencedBy Austro-Marxism
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Émile Durkheim
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
Hungarian
mainInterest comparative economic systems
critique of market liberalism
embeddedness of the economy in society
origins of modern capitalism
movement institutional economics
substantivist economic anthropology
name Karl Polanyi
notableIdea double movement
embeddedness of the economy
fictitious commodities
notableWork The Great Transformation
occupation economic historian
university teacher
religion Christianity
sibling Michael Polanyi
spouse Ilona Duczynska
workedAt Bennington College
Columbia University

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Karl Polanyi ("Polanyi")
familyName
Karl Polanyi
name
John Polanyi
relative
Michael Polanyi
sibling

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