Karl Polanyi and his wife, Ilona Duczynska, in Kent, United Kingdom, 1939. (© Kari Polanyi Levitt) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

Hungarian social theorist Karl Polanyi is best known for his exploration of the collapse of liberal institutions that occurred between 1914 and 1945. His book, The Great Transformation, traces the ...

If filmmaker Ilan Ziv has his way, the late economist Karl Polanyi will soon be a household name, on par with Karl Marx and Adam Smith. “In my mind, he’s one of the big thinkers and that’s why it’s so ...

“I’m never happier,” Karl Polanyi wrote to his brother Michael, “than when I am exhausted from work, sitting in a train and, with a view of the southern English countryside outside the window, on my ...

In London, in the nineteen-thirties, the émigré Hungarian intellectual Karl Polanyi was known among his friends as “the apocalyptic chap.” His gloom was understandable. Nearly fifty, he’d had to leave ...

The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. New Harmony as imagined by Robert Owen and drawn by an ...

In November 1933, less than a year after Hitler assumed power in Berlin, a 47-year-old socialist writer on Vienna’s leading economics weekly was advised by his publisher that it was too risky to keep ...

It would make for some pretty amazing headlines if Pope Francis turned out to be a Marxist. Between his hints at rehabilitating liberation theology—condemned by his predecessors—and talk about casting ...