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The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation is a book by Karl Polanyi, a Hungarian-American political economist. First published in 1944 by Farrar & Rinehart, it deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements but as the single human invention he calls the "Market Society".


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“The economic system is, in effect, a mere function of social organization.”

The Great Transformation (1944), Ch. 4 : Societies and Economic Systems

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

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

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