Currently, one of the loci communes economic history is that New Deal was right cocktail state-mandated policies to pull US economy out Great Depression begun in 1929. The relevance this interpretation has increased tremendously since crisis 2008 many compare with There a quasi-general demand for new Deal. This view contended by Austrian School Economics and other free-market oriented thinkers....

In this paper, I present an analysis of those aspects Karl Polanyi's social and political thought that relate to environmentalism 'green' politics today. discuss whether or not he prefigured the degrowth movement, before focusing on his understanding New Deal (1933-1939). At time writing, prospect appears likely a return, at global scale, economic slump, mass unemployment ecological crisis, bac...