NP...about the economist of the 'excluded middle' , so to speak: Karl Polanyi

[Mark Kohut]

Block and Somers [biographers] add to this, arguing that markets are
not only embedded socially and politically; markets are also embedded
in ideas--what they call ideational embeddedness. Social naturalism,
the idea that markets are pre-political, autonomous, and ultimately
guided by natural laws, is not simply something embraced by Chicago
school economists or policymakers. Market fundamentalism taps into our
individualism, our independence, our conception of freedom, our sense
of self, our very ethos
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