Electricity, Christophers notes, aligns with economic historian Karl Polanyi’s definition of “fictitious commodities.” In his seminal work "The Great Transformation" (1944), Polanyi argued that land, ...

This hypothesis stands in contrast to an influential view put forth in the 1940s by the anthropologist Karl Polanyi, who cast modern economies based on monetary profit as a new and distinct ...

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To preserve the intellectual legacy of Karl Polanyi and to contribute to research and policy debates on new development strategies locally and internationally and on the new or reformed multilateral ...

While British economists Joan Robinson and Jonathan Haskel; Austrian political economist Karl Polanyi, philosopher Bernard Williams; American economist Peter Klenow; Italian academic Oriana ...

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