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Month: August 2015

Polanyi’s The Great Transformation – a rushed not-review

Posted on 10 August, 2015 by preorg

I feel hugely underqualified to review this economics classic, not just because I’m not an economist (ignorance seems to be regarded as a qualification among many of them) but because the book takes in a vast sweep of British/European history. I have doubts about some of the historical narratives he constructs but I’m not well-enough…

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