Karl Polanyi and the power of ideas -- Beyond the economistic fallacy: the holistic science of Karl Polanyi -- Karl Polanyi and the writing of the Great transformation -- Turning the tables: Polanyi's critique of free market utopianism -- In the shadow of Speenhamland: social policy and the old...

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-1950's, the period of Dissent's gestation. On...