Polanyi's great transformation

[Rakesh Bhandari]

Important criticisms of Polanyi's concept of the disembedded economy, esp
as he developed it in later anthropological work, can be found in the intro
supplied by Patrick Murray, ed. Reflections on Commercial Life (Routledge)
and the chapter critique in Maurice Godelier's The Mental and the Material
(Verso). Bourdieu leans hard on Polanyi's idea in *The Logic of Practice*.
One also wonders about the present status of Polanyi's account of the poor
laws and the collapse of the gold standard in light of recent scholarship.
There is also Scott Meikle's criticism of Polanyi's famous essay "Aristotle
Discovers the Economy" in the former's *Aristotle's Economic Thought*
(Oxford) which I excerpted months ago here.

rb