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  1. 23 Mar 2017
  2. This is the month of the 131st birthday of Karl . Good time to (re)discover him.

  3. >: 5 books on political forces shaping markets: Franzen's The Corrections, 's The Great Transformation, Polanyi-Levitt's From the GT to the Great Financialization, Turner's Between Debt & the Devil, Lazonick's Profits Without Prosperity

  4. Updated Philip Mirowski's plenary address 'Polanyi vs. Hayek?' in relation to the special issue 'Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy' and added links to the special issue

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  5. Why were “common good” frames frequently embraced for environmental issues and rejected for issues? Tim Bartley reflects on his new book "Rules without Rights", wondering whether Karl was wrong regarding 'fictitious commodities'?

  6. 17 Feb 2017
  7. “Humanity will only be free when it understands what it must pay for its ideals" - The early Karl and his “Socialist Accounting” (1922; open access) interpreted by Johanna Bockman

  8. Great thread on the ’s book ’The Great Transportation’. I would add this line from the book: ”Since the introduction of the ”functional finance” in all important markets, the directing of investments and the regulation of rate of saving have become government tasks.”

  9. 22 May 2018

    Why is the work of Karl still relevant today, not just for political scientists but also for sociologist, historians and economists? Watch Brian Burgoon, Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy on Polanyi's work:

  10. The "curse of knowledge": The better you understand something, the harder it is to explain to a beginning learner. So true. Maybe because knowledge become more and more tacit over time?

  11. . on & on market *shaping* and *creating*

  12. 9 May 2018

    "the fictions of the economic discipline are translated into legal concepts" says at conference. Another reason why pluralism in economics matters!

  13. 5 lectures given by Karl in 1940 at Bennington College, Vermont, & entitled by the author “The Present Age of Transformation”

  14. 20 Apr 2018

    What can the emergent new Left learn from ? Quite a lot. Great longer read for a sunny weekend from Richard Sandbrook - a preview piece from summer edition, free until next Friday

  15. Karl on the Rise of & Market Economy; Timely & insightful excerpts from "The Great Transformation"

  16. 21 Jan 2019

    “The Great Mobilities Transformation” Jan 23rd- CeMoRe Reading Group. All welcome to join- even via Skype. More info:

  17. 7 Oct 2018

    Note these markets aren't natural, they're products of political action. Politicians made them, politicians can remake them - this time in the public interest.

  18. 29 Jan 2019

    Here's our effort to think about the limits of postneoliberalism in the face of Argentina's soy boom, with Christian Berndt and Ramiro Fernández:

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