Karl Polanyi
Karl Polanyi · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Economic anthropologist and historian, author of 'The Great Transformation'
1886, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1964, Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Hungary · Austria · United Kingdom · United States · Canada
Karl Polanyi is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Economic anthropologist and historian, author of 'The Great Transformation'
Karl Polanyi, an economic historian and anthropologist, argued in 'The Great Transformation' (1944) that the self-regulating market was a historical construct whose disembedding from society drove the upheavals of the 20th century. He came from a Jewish family in Budapest and Vienna and fled the rise of fascism, teaching in Britain, the United States and Canada. His concepts of reciprocity, redistribution and embeddedness reshaped economic anthropology.
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Economic anthropologist and historian, author of 'The Great Transformation'
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
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