Los límites del mercado

by Karl Polanyi

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408 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2014

About the author

Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, political economist, historical sociologist and social philosopher. He is known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and for his book, The Great Transformation, which argued that the emergence of market-based societies in modern Europe was not inevitable but historically contingent. Polanyi is remembered today as the originator of substantivism, a cultural approach to economics, which emphasized the way economies are embedded in society and culture. This view ran counter to mainstream economics but is popular in anthropology, economic history, economic sociology and political science.

Polanyi's approach to the ancient economies has been applied to a variety of cases, such as Pre-Columbian America and ancient Mesopotamia, although its utility to the study of ancient societies in general has been questioned. Polanyi's The Great Transformation became a model for historical sociology. His theories eventually became the foundation for the economic democracy movement. His daughter, Canadian economist Kari Polanyi Levitt (born 1923 in Vienna, Austria), is Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal.

Reviews

[Luis Guillermo Rodriguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excelente libro.

Para todo aquel que busca un poco de antropología de la economía en contraposición de los manidos discursos del dogma neoclásico.
Fuerte cuestionamiento al mercado como un naturalismo de raíces históricas.
Hay capítulos que se escapan de mi interés pero para un libro un mundo de variados lectores.

[Pablo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Puede que sea una buena manera de aproximarse al análisis económico de Polanyi, sin embargo, la edición del libro quizás es demasiado amplia respecto a linea temática elegida. La segunda parte, sobre "Comercio y mercado en las economías antiguas", si bien es interesante y es necesaria para comprender la idea del mercado como un fenómeno histórico situado, se aleja bastante de la primera y tercera parte del libro.