Karl Polanyi Quotes on Politics
Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian-American economic historian, social theorist, and political philosopher. This page collects quotes attributed to Karl Polanyi on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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.”