To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of …

- Karl Polanyi

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

- Karl Polanyi

There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as …

- Karl Polanyi

Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without ann…

- Karl Polanyi