Autore
Cangiani, Michele

Titolo
Karl Polanyi e la trasformazione neoliberale
Periodico
Politica & società
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 27 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 259 - Pagina finale: 278

Karl Polanyi’s theory deals with the general traits of capitalist society. His holistic andinstitutional-historical approach avails itself of a wide-ranging comparative analysis.This implies a criticism of classical economists’ naturalism as well as of the individualistic,‘formal’ and deductive neoclassical method. In Polanyi’s vision, market society isa peculiarly ‘economic’ society, since its fundamental institutions – the market systemand capitalist relations of production – are specifically and exclusively economic.Thus, the economy acquires an unprecedented autonomous and dominant “placeµ inthe social system. Polanyi builds on this theoretical basis the possibility of 1) raising thevital, topical problem of the relationship of the economic system and the social systemas a whole with their human and natural environment; and 2) analysing the history ofcontemporary society. A reason of current wide interest in Polanyi’s The Great Transformationmay be that this book carries on a vision of the origin, development and finalcrisis of nineteenth-century liberal society, and of the following “transformationµ,which is radically opposed to neoliberal theoretical and political approach. Polanyi’santi-neoliberal attitude is particularly evident in his conception of ‘positive’ freedom,on which his political philosophy is grounded, and in his early acknowledgement ofthe erosion of democracy inherent in the neoliberal tendency to adapt politics and allaspects of social life to the needs of the dominant economic powers.



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