Friday, January 2, 2015

Yves Smith — Something That Changed My Perspective: Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation

The first Christmas-New Years period for this site, in 2007, we featured a series "Something That Changed My Perspective," which presented some things that affected how I viewed the world. The offerings included John Kay on obliquity and Michael Prowse on how income inequality was bad for the health even of the wealthy. Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (which I should have read long ago) is proving to be a particularly potent example of this general phenomenon.…
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Something That Changed My Perspective: Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation
Yves Smith

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