“Pauperism had become a portent. But its meaning was still anybody's guess.”

—  Karl Polanyi , book The Great Transformation

Source: The Great Transformation (1944), Ch. 9 : Pauperism and Utopia

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economist, philosopher and historian 1886–1964

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