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The Market as Statecraft: A Polanyian Reading

Antonino Palumbo

subject

market state commodification PolanyiSettore SPS/01 - Filosofia Politica

description

How can markets help the state boost its sovereign power? The answer we derive from Polanyi’s account of change is that markets have the ability to undermine the cooperative relations underpinning communal life by making various subgroups compete against each other. As such, markets represent a soft-power alternative to military and repressive force.

http://hdl.handle.net/10447/557107