Showing posts with label Karl Polanyi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karl Polanyi. Show all posts
17 July 2012

The Road to Serfdom

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When Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom in 1944 it was one of several books reacting against the collapse of liberal values in Europe and the ...
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3 April 2012

Back to the Land

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I have been away from my blog for a while because of tidying up a typescript for my new book called The Bioregional Economy: Life, Liberty a...
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13 February 2012

Bringing Economics Down to Earth

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I have been a bit lax about posting recently because I am watching a publisher's deadline rush towards me over the horizon. The book is ...
19 January 2012

Community Currencies Invade Dark Towers of Davos

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The global elite, the men we have come to know as the 1%, will be assembling soon in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the global economy over w...
26 October 2011

The Eurozone Crisis: A Warning from History

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I am thinking of creating my own derivative, called a political default swap. This is how it works. We each choose a country and bet against...
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10 September 2011

A Reverse Transformation?

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Polanyi's work is valuable in denying the priority placed on the market in most economic theory. His account of how we arrived at the si...
27 July 2011

Factors of Production and Fictitious Commodities

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When economists address the issue of the production of goods they begin with the concept of ‘factors of production’: these can be thought o...
24 July 2011

Work, Land and Provisioning

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When systems of industrial production burst onto the British landscape in the 18th century they represented a break with a timeless pattern ...
30 June 2011

Resist Divide-and-Conquer Tactics

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The Tory rhetoric over today's strike is a clear attempt to divide and conquer. We are told that the poor downtrodden taxpayer is subsid...
18 April 2011

Great Transformation: Phase II

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I have finally overcome my inherent thrift and bought Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation , allowing me the leisure time to consider hi...
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