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“ ”The congenital weakness of nineteenth century society was not that it was industrial but that it was a market society. Industrial civilization will continue to exist when the Utopian experiment of a self-regulating market will be no more than a memory.
About Karl Polanyi
Karl Paul Polanyi (October 25, 1886 – April 23, 1964) was a Hungarian-American economic historian, economic anthropologist, political economist, historical sociologist and social philosopher.
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the IMF, those institutional bastions of belief in the free market system, believe that governments should not intervene in the exchange rate,
one of the book’s enduring contributions — its focus on the institutions that regulate the global economy — was directly linked to Polanyi’s multiple exiles. His moves from Budapest to Vienna to England and then to the United States, combined with a deep sense of moral responsibility, made Polanyi a kind of world citizen.
But we also know that growth can bring enormous benefits to most segments in society, as it has in some of the more enlightened advanced industrial countries.