To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.
Economists
Born 1886
Born 1886, Vienna. Hungarian economic anthropologist. The Great Transformation argued self-regulating markets are historically anomalous and destructive. Introduced embeddedness, fictitious commodities, double movement.
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