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Both Karl Polanyi and his work have been described with various adjectives like "democratic Socialist", "social humanist", "left liberal", and "left Christian". All of these adjectives could be right because his biography was indeed influenced by all these theories.This paper seeks to contribute to this debate, suggesting that Polanyi's work contains some elements that could be heirs of the Republican tradition and, in particular, of its most democratic and progressive side. Such relation becomes clearer when we analyze his conceptions about "liberty", "democracy", "justice", and "market". More specifically, this paper focuses on one of these coincidences, namely, a similar view about freedom and property. This link can be revealed throughout the parallelisms between the Polanyi's work and those of other authors like Aristotle, Robespierre, Paine, and Marx. Although Karl Polanyi's work cannot be totally placed into the tradition of Republicanism, it could be seen as a substantial contribution to this thought, offering some relevant thesis and empirical arguments to analyze the relation between markets and societies, and more precisely, pointing out some arrangements of market design that could be fruitful for the democratic Republican theory. The paper concludes with the idea that such analysis could provide us useful intellectual tools, which can be helpful for the current scientific and political debates.Key words: republicanism, Karl Polanyi, material independence, institutional design, freedom, market system. ; Tanto la obra de Karl Polanyi como él mismo se han etiquetado con varios adjetivos; desde "socialista democrático", "socialista humanista", "liberal de izquierdas" hasta "cristiano de izquierdas". Dichos calificativos están probablemente bien fundados ya que a lo largo de su vida se vio influenciado por varias de estas corrientes de pensamiento. Este artículo quiere contribuir a dicha discusión defendiendo la hipótesis según la cual su obra contiene elementos que claramente pueden ser herederos de la tradición republicana y, en particular, de su vertiente más progresista o democrática. Esta relación se vuelve evidente al analizar su concepció sobre la "libertad", la "democracia", la "justicia" o el "mercado". Sin embargo, el artículo se centra en una de dichas coincidencias, a saber,una visión muy parecida de los conceptos de libertady propiedad. Dicha relación puede constatarse a travésde las coincidencias entre su obra y la de Aristóteles, Robespierre, Paine o Marx. Aunque Polanyi no puede ser etiquetado totalmente como un autor republicano, su obra puede entenderse como una contribución sustancial a dicho pensamiento, aportándole tesis muy relevantes y argumentos empíricos para analizar la relación entre los mercados y las sociedades, y más precisamente, señalando algunas disposiciones sobre el diseño de los mercados que podría ser muy útil para la teoría democrático-republicana. El artículo concluye argumentando que dicho ejercicio puede ofrecer herramientas intelectuales muy útiles que podrían ser beneficiosas, no sólo para el debate científico actual, sino también para el político.Palabras clave: republicanismo, Karl Polanyi, independencia material, diseño institucional, libertad, sistema de mercado.

Karl Polanyi dient als Inspirationsquelle um den digitalen Kapitalismus zu verstehen. Daher erläutern wir in dieser Masterarbeit Polanyis Konzept der "Einbettung". Dieses besagt, dass die Wirtschaft in der Geschichte jahrtausendelang ein nichtdominanter Lebensbereich der Menschen war. Märkte spielten somit in früheren Gesellschaften nur eine marginale Rolle und eine Marktwirtschaft (also ein durch den Mechanismus von Angebot, Nachfrage und Preis zusammenhängendes System von Märkten) gab es nicht. Erst im 19. Jahrhundert kam es zur "großen Transformation" hin zu einer Marktwirtschaft. Dafür mussten die von Polanyi bezeichneten "fiktiven Waren" Arbeit, Land und Geld dem Marktmechanismus unterworfen werden. Auf diese im 19. Jahrhundert eingeleitete "Entbettung" folgten sobald "Gegenbewegungen", die versuchten die Wirtschaft wieder in die Gesellschaft "einzubetten". Obwohl das Konzept der Einbettung in der Neuen Wirtschaftssoziologie eine wichtige Rolle spielt, zeigen wir, dass es hier durchaus unterschiedliche Auffassungen gibt. Schließlich übertragen wir Polanyis Terminologie auf das 21. Jahrhundert und argumentieren, dass der digitale Kapitalismus das Produkt einer politisch und technologisch getriebenen Entbettung ist. Diese Mischung aus Neoliberalismus und digitaler Technologie droht heute, sämtliche Lebensbereiche des Menschen in Daten zu verwandeln, die von digitalen Unternehmen gesammelt, weiterverarbeitet und profitträchtig verkauft werden. Diese Logik der digitalen Kapitalakkumulation geht mit einer zunehmenden Überwachung einher, durch die menschliches Verhalten zu einer neuen fiktiven Ware wird. Wenn es den digitalen KapitalistInnen nicht möglich ist, durch Enteignung an neue Verhaltensdaten zu gelangen, dann beauftragen sie digitale ArbeiterInnen. Diese schlecht bezahlten und nicht sozial abgesicherten ArbeiterInnen verrichten auf digitalen Arbeitsmärkten digitale Kleinstaufträge, womit die neuen Produktionsmittel des 21. Jahrhunderts gebaut werden. ; Karl Polanyi helps us to understand digital capitalism. Thus we elaborate Polanyis concept of "embeddedness" according to which the economy never was a dominant feature of human life for the most part of history. This means that markets played only a marginal role in past societies and a market economy (i.e. a system of markets interconnected by a mechanism of demand, supply and price) did not exist. In the 19th century, finally, a "great transformation" towards a market economy was initiated. This demanded that labor, land and money (which Polanyi termed "fictitious commodities") become subordinated to the market mechanism. 19th century "disembeddedness" soon triggered "counter movements" which sought so "re-embed" the economy. The concept of embeddedness has also been widely adopted by the New Economic Sociology. As we show, there have been different conceptions of the concept though. Finally, we use Polanyis concept to analyze digital capitalism. We argue that a politically and technologically driven disembeddedness has occurred in the 21st century. This mix of neoliberalism and digital technology now endangers to convert every aspect of human life into data, which are collected, processed and sold with a profit by digital companies. This logic of digital capital accumulation leads to increased surveillance, which creates a new fictitious commodity: human behavior. If digital capitalists cannot get to behavioral data via expropriation, they employ digital workers. These are low paid workers without social security, who perform "microtasks" on digital labor markets, out of which the new means of production of the 21st century are built. ; Bernhard Siegl ; Zusammenfassungen in Deutsch und Englisch ; Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung des Verfassers/der Verfasserin ; Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Masterarbeit, 2019 ; (VLID)4479484

The work of Karl Polanyi has gained in influence in recent years to become a point of reference to a wide range of leading authors in the fields of economics, politics, sociology and social policy. Newly available in paperback, this volume is a combination of reflections on, and assessment of, the nature of Polanyi's contribution and new strands of work, both theoretical and empirical, that has been inspired by Polanyi's insights. It gathers together the key contributions to the first ever workshop on the work of Karl Polanyi held in the United Kingdom. Several of the contributions develop Pol

Since the Great Recession, Polanyi has become a totem for social democracy. Both disciples and critics have portrayed him as the master theorist of the welfare state. The Polanyi revival has now yielded the first full-length intellectual biography of the thinker. Gareth Dale's Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left offers a brisk but thorough account of Polanyi's life and times. Despite this light touch, Dale's invaluable portrait unsettles some of the received images of its subject, above all by tracing his intellectual journey in its full sweep. Polanyi is unusual in being so deeply identified with a single book, and the temptation is to read his magnum opus, The Great Transformation, as the authoritative distillation of his thought. But it was only one step—and not the final one—in a career than was itinerant in both literal and intellectual terms.

This article aims to critically and constructively review the news of Karl Polanyi's thinking to understand and act on the development of the plural economy in the 21st century. It shows that this thinking is very topical, as well as the need to look at Karl Polanyi's entire work, not just the "Great Transformation". Building on the multiple uses of the concept of flush-down and demisting, it links KP's proposals on the "process of economic democratisation" to recent practical and theoretical developments: 'transitional labour markets' and 'new public finance'. ; International audience ; This article aims to critically and constructively review the news of Karl Polanyi's thinking to understand and act on the development of the plural economy in the 21st century. It shows that this thinking is very topical, as well as the need to look at Karl Polanyi's entire work, not just the "Great Transformation". Building on the multiple uses of the concept of flush-down and demisting, it links KP's proposals on the "process of economic democratisation" to recent practical and theoretical developments: 'transitional labour markets' and 'new public finance'. ; Cet article vise à examiner de manière critique et constructive l'actualité de la pensée de Karl Polanyi pour comprendre le développement de l'économie plurielle au XXIe siècle et pour agir sur celui-ci. Il montre la très grande actualité de cette pensée, ainsi que la nécessité de s'intéresser à l'oeuvre entière de Karl Polanyi, et pas seulement à la "Grande transformation". Partant des usages multiples du concept d'encastrement et de désencastrement, il relie les propositions inspirées par KP sur le "processus de démocratisation économique" à des développements récents tant pratiques que théoriques : les "marchés transitionnels du travail" et la "nouvelle finance publique".

Que peut-on retenir de l'œuvre de K. Polanyi en comparaison, notamment, de celles de Marx ou de Weber ? Cet article fait le point à la fois sur les contributions historiques et anthropologiques de Polanyi à l'histoire du marché et sur son aspiration à un socialisme associationniste, et il conclut que, audelà des nécessaires rectifications et actualisations, K. Polanyi reste la source d'inspiration principale pour un socialisme radical à visage humaniste.

In the first half century of Dissent 's history, Karl Polanyi almost never made an appearance in the magazine's pages. On one level this is surprising, because Polanyi was a presence in socialist circles in New York City from 1947 through the mid-1950s, the period of Dissent 's gestation. On another level it is unsurprising, in that Polanyi was a heterodox thinker—even among fellow socialists. With some significant exceptions, it has taken decades to recognize the extraordinary theoretical contributions to socialist thought that he made in his masterpiece, The Great Transformation: The Social and Political Origins of Our Time ,first published in 1944.

The crisis of neoliberal globalization has led many scholars back to Karl Polanyi in their search for alternatives to the present malaise. The dominant reading appropriates the concepts of embeddedness and the double movement in support of a system of regulated, welfare-state capitalism. This article contends, however, that the concepts of embeddedness and the double movement point not towards the need to regulate capitalist markets, but towards the radical supersession of capitalism itself. Adapted from the source document.

In the first half century of Dissent's history, Karl Polanyi almost never made an appearance in the magazine's pages. On one level this is surprising, because Polanyi was a presence in socialist circles in New York City from 1947 through the mid-1950s, the period of Dissent's gestation. On another level it is unsurprising, in that Polanyi was a heterodox thinker-even among fellow socialists. With some significant exceptions, it has taken decades to recognize the extraordinary theoretical contributions to socialist thought that he made in his masterpiece, The Great Transformation: The Social and Political Origins of Our Time, first published in 1944. Adapted from the source document.