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Karl Polanyi

1886 - 1964

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Karl Paul Polanyi (; Hungarian: Polányi Károly [ˈpolaːɲi ˈkaːroj]; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets. In his writings, Polanyi advances the concept of the Double Movement, which refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketization. He argues that market-based societies in modern Europe were not inevitable but historically contingent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Polanyi has received more than 981,286 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Karl Polanyi is the 38th most popular economist (down from 34th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Austria (down from 115th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Economist.

Karl Polanyi is most famous for his book The Great Transformation, which discusses the transformation of an economy from a market economy to a market society.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Karl Polanyi ranks 38 out of 414. Before him are William Petty, Elinor Ostrom, Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen, Léon Walras, and Wassily Leontief. After him are Frédéric Bastiat, Robert Solow, Maurice Allais, Ronald Coase, Friedrich List, and Paul Krugman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Karl Polanyi ranks 19. Before him are Ernst Thälmann, Karl Barth, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and George Mallory. After him are Jan Masaryk, Theodor Morell, Hermann Broch, Gotthard Heinrici, Zhu De, and Robert Robinson. Among people deceased in 1964, Karl Polanyi ranks 17. Before him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, James Franck, Vasily Grossman, Gerhard Domagk, Palmiro Togliatti, and Gerrit Rietveld. After him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Otto Grotewohl, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Giorgio Morandi, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, and Alexandre Koyré.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl Polanyi ranks 128 out of 1,424. Before him are Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (1633), Helmut Berger (1944), Ernest, Duke of Austria (1377), Gustav Meyrink (1868), Georg Trakl (1887), and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791). After him are Ernst Happel (1925), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Mariana of Austria (1634), Richard Kuhn (1900), and Franz Stangl (1908).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Austria

Among economists born in Austria, Karl Polanyi ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Hayek (1899). After him are Friedrich von Wieser (1851), Rudolf Hilferding (1877), Fritz Machlup (1902), Bruno de Finetti (1906), Gottfried Haberler (1900), and Käthe Leichter (1895).

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