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The Great Transformation
by Karl Polanyi
Market society was created by the state and provoked a counter-movement of protection: the 1944 analysis that explains populism today.
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Three things you will actually use
- Markets are embedded.
- Society protects itself.
- The double movement recurs.
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Read the chapters on the double movement.
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