Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Gus Breytspraak ◽  
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revistapuce ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Mora V. ◽  
Paola Lozada
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El estudio de aquella parte de la economía que ha sido excluida del enfoque económico ortodoxo usualmente encuentra asidero en las propuestas económicas alternativas derivadas del trabajo seminal de Karl Polanyi, quien analiza la necesidad de “reincrustar” la economía en la sociedad, de cara a los devastadores efectos que han tenido el surgimiento y la consolidación de la economía de mercado; al tiempo que estudia la conformación de una respuesta desde de la sociedad civil a los excesos de la misma, a la que llama ‘contramovimiento’. Sobre dicha base, y con un necesario matiz basado en las particularidades históricas, económicas y políticas de la región latinoamericana, se analiza en qué medida la economía solidaria podría, además de constituir un discurso aglutinador, pasar a representar un contramovimiento, al canalizar la búsqueda de transformación social a través de prácticas económicas alternativas en el Ecuador, en un contexto en que los modelos neoliberales de desarrollo basados en el crecimiento económico y el desmantelamiento del Estado perpetúan la exclusión y la falta de representatividad social real.  Mediante una serie de entrevistas a actores clave, sustentadas en revisión documental, se llega a determinar algunos elementos indispensables para el desafío que la acción colectiva organizada bajo el discurso de la economía solidaria aún representa en el país, para poder pensarse como un contramovimiento.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 229-252

The article deals with characteristic features of economic anthropology"s rhetoric of reciprocity and analyzes the factors that affected its formation. The authors consider two principal interpretations of reciprocity in economic anthropology that were formed under the influence of its two main founders - Malinowski and Mauss. The characteristic features of their two types of rhetoric are discussed together with the purposes for which they were used. Two different intentions were pivotal for the work of these researchers and their followers: first, to establish economic anthropology as a positivistic science; and second, to use the analysis of archaic societies as evidence for their critique of a capitalistic economy.To achieve the first task they actively used rhetoric borrowed from the natural sciences, and especially from biology as well as from economic theories that were another social science also striving for a more rigorous positivism. For the second task they turned to the rhetoric of political economy and used arguments based on a dialectical opposition between commodity exchange and gift exchange. The most prominent example of such dialectical rhetoric is in the works of Chris Gregory and Karl Polanyi in which gift exchange was interpreted as a metaphor for a utopian alternative to capitalistic commodity exchange. Because the rhetoric of economic anthropology from its inception to the present has been profoundly influenced by the language of general economic theory, the article examines the genesis of the rhetoric of economics as a science. This leads to an analysis of how the language of economics was affected by the rhetoric of the natural sciences, then of psychology and finally of law.


2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 193-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Hindess
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2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 575-606
Author(s):  
Michelle Staggs Kelsall

This article considers the emergence of the Business and Human Rights agenda at the United Nations (UN). It argues that the agenda can be seen as an example of the UN Human Rights Council attempting to institutionalise everyday utopias within an emerging global public domain. Utilising the concept of embedded pragmatism and tracing the underlying rationale for the emergence of the agenda to the work of Karl Polanyi, the article argues that the Business and Human Rights agenda seeks to institutionalise human rights due diligence processes within transnational corporations in order to create a pragmatic alternative to the stark utopia of laissez-faire liberal markets. It then provides an analytical account of the implications of human rights due diligence for the modes and techniques business utilises to assess human rights harm. It argues that due to the constraints imposed by the concept of embedded pragmatism and the normative indeterminacy of human rights, the Business and Human Rights agenda risks instituting human rights within the corporation through modes and techniques that maintain human rights as a language of crisis, rather than creating the space for novel, everyday utopias to emerge.


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