Karl Polanyi Quotes
Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian-American economic historian, social theorist, and political philosopher. After service in the Austro-Hungarian army and a period of activism in Vienna, he emigrated to England and then to the United States, where he taught at Bennington and Columbia. The quotes below are attributed to Karl Polanyi, organized by topic.
Karl Polanyi on Politics
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Attributed to Karl Polanyi:
“The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism.”
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Attributed to Karl Polanyi:
“Society is the way human beings hold together.”
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Attributed to Karl Polanyi:
“Labor, land, and money are essentially fictitious commodities.”
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Attributed to Karl Polanyi:
“The market has been the outcome of a conscious and often violent intervention on the part of government.”
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Attributed to Karl Polanyi:
“Power and economic value are a paradigm of social reality.”