Karl Polanyi
1886 – 1964 · Hungary · Political Economy, History
The Great Transformation showed markets are made by states, not found in nature.
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- Ha-Joon Chang
1963 · Political Economy, Economics
The Great Transformation's embedded market is the premise of Chang's development economics.
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