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Karl Polanyi’s double movement is a key tool for conceptualising free market fatigue in African business communities wrought by the insecurities of trade liberalisation. Synthesising Polanyi with Kwame Nkrumah’s work on neo-colonialism, article argues that exhausted Africa can contest reforms and push return to developmentalist strategies, underscoring movement. In this discussion it highlights...

Karl Polanyi’nin 1944 yılında yayımlanan Büyük Dönüşüm adlı eseri piyasa, devlet ve refah ilişkisine yeni bir boyut getirmiştir. Polanyi, piyasalar kapitalist toplumlar arasındaki ilişkinin, herhangi sosyal düzenin merkezi özelliği olduğunu düşünmüştür. Ona göre toplumu istikrarsızlaştırırken emeğin, toprağın paranın metalaştırılması ise tepki ya da “karşı hareket” yaratmıştır. Bu yüzden eserin...

This article discusses digitalization and its connection with the political economy of transformation. Its point departure is Karl Polanyi's historical analysis as presented in The Great Transformation. Polanyi analyzed development “self-regulating” markets—with transformative destructive consequences for individuals, nature, society—and government efforts to contain these consequences. perspec...

It is sometimes said that Polanyi’s ideas have been summarized, analyzed, explicated, clarified and reconstructed often enough and that we should rather use his theories as a rich source of inspiration and a common platform to work on than go on repeating them. However, when accounts of his work appear that contradict the standard interpretation, one is forced to go back to the old texts in ord...