Ayşe Buğra and Kaan Ağartan (2007), Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century. Market Economy as Political Project

The Great Transformation (GT), l'oeuvre of Karl Polanyi has remained vivid a piece of social science for the past 65 years despite, or perhaps owing to, ambiguities and tensions that it contains. Umberto Eco might welcome it as an opera aperta, one that can be filled with meanings, interpretations and variously made sense of in different contexts, disciplinary arenas, and political circumstances. For good and bad, polanyian interdisciplinary discourse thrives on misunderstandings and new rea..