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

[Dave Monroe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_liberalism

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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