The Great Transformation
discussed in biography
...social frameworks. This led him to detailed historical and anthropological studies. He produced three works based on the theme of the market economy as a special form of social organization. The Great Transformation (1944) concentrated on the development of the market economy in the 19th century, with Polanyi presenting his belief that this form of economy was so socially divisive...
TITLE: embeddedness: Origins
Polanyi argued that because individuals were always primarily social beings, rather than economic ones, embeddedness is a necessary and basic condition of the economy. In The Great Transformation (1944) he analyzed the consequences of the 18th- and 19th-century expansion of capitalism—namely, the effort to create an economic sphere increasingly separate from noneconomic...