Karl Polanyi for Historians: An Alternative Economic Narrative

Knowles, R. N.; Owen, John R.

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“…Na visão de Polanyi, enquanto o mercado encontra-se desembedded, os outros dois tipos de interação econômica -proeminentes no passado -estariam mais embedded em estruturas sociais e culturais. Sua proposição acerca de um mercado desembedded vem sendo objeto de controvérsia e merecendo vários estudos (BARBER, 1995;GEMICI, 2008;KRIPPNER, 2004;DALE, 2011;BECKERT, 2009;MACHADO, 2010;KURTULUS, 2008;KNOWLES;OWEN, 2008). Ao introduzir o conceito de imersão, Granovetter (1985a) relações interpessoais permeia todo o trabalho do autor, desde suas reflexões iniciais sobre o 'poder dos laços fracos' (GRANOVETTER, 1973(GRANOVETTER, , 1983(GRANOVETTER, , 1985b, passando por imersão (1985a), até sua proposta mais recente de agenda para a sociologia econômica, esta baseada no conceito de acoplamento-desacoplamento (2008).…”

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Fatores Condicionantes do Empreendedorismo: Redes Sociais ou Classes Sociais?

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2015

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ResumoC onsiderado um dos pilares da moderna sociologia econômica, o conceito de imersão, como concebido por Granovetter, vem sendo objeto de críticas. Barber questiona a primazia dada pelo autor à economia de mercado e a importância, por ele imputada, às estruturas sociais, baseadas em relações interpessoais. Segundo Barber, coexistiriam, atualmente, além do mercado, mais dois outros tipos de interações econômicas (reciprocidade, redistribuição), já mencionados por Polanyi. Todos encontram-se imersos em diferentes tipos de estruturas -a exemplo dos sistemas de estratificação social. Este trabalho avalia a capacidade explicativa dessas duas concepções, na análise da maneira como empreendedores constroem seus empreendimentos e mercados. Utiliza, para isso, uma pesquisa amostral, realizada com 100 empreendedores. Conclui-se que existe associação entre as variáveis relações interpessoais e as demais. Observa-se, no entanto, que não se podem subestimar as contribuições de Barber. Os resultados gerais permitem vislumbrar facetas, até então inexploradas, do complexo processo de construção dos mercados. Palavras-chave:Imersão. Redes Sociais. Classe Social. Mercado. Redistribuição. Reciprocidade. Abstract U nderpinning modern economic sociology theory, the concept of imersão, as conceived by Granovetter, has been holding against a barrage of criticism. Barber, for example, questions the primacy conferred by Granovetter on the market economy as well as his assigned importance to social structures based on interpersonal relations. According to Barber, two relevant types of economic interactions (besides the market, as previously described by Polanyi) coexist: reciprocity and redistribution. All such interactions are embedded in different types of social structures, in analogy with systems of social stratification. Therefore, this study evaluates the explanatory power of these two alternative conceptions, insofar as they focus on the way entrepreneurs pursue their businesses. For such an endeavor, it relies upon data obtained from a survey of 100 entrepreneurs. The findings indicate an important association between interpersonal relations and the remaining variables. However, Barber's

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“…It has been strongly felt, from the 1980s and 9 The concept of embeddedness has been used in other disciplines as well. In addition to economic anthropology (especially as a result of Polanyi's influence over the substantivist camp), economic geography (Hess, 2004), archaeology (Cumberpatch, 2001), and history (Knowles, 2000;Knowles and Owen, 2008) also deserve mention. 10 Elsewhere Swedberg also makes it clear that while Polanyi proposed the concept of embeddedness to highlight the fact that in pre-capitalist times the economy was an organic part of society, Granovetter's intent when he uses the concept is almost the opposite: to show that economic actions are truly social actions within capitalist society (Swedberg, 1997: 165). onwards, that it was important for economic sociology to have its own profile, which could set it apart especially from mainstream neoclassical economics but also from other approaches to economics, such as socio-economics and 'old' institutionalist economics.…”

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Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology: Notes on the Concept of (Dis)embeddedness*

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‘Marketless Trading in Hammurabi’s Time’: A Re-appraisal

Dale¹

2013

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon his published works as well as unpublished documents in the Karl Polanyi and Michael Polanyi archives. Finally, I provide a critical assessment of the merits and demerits of his contribution, with reference to Assyriological research published in the decades that have elapsed since his death in 1964.

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Karl Polanyi for Historians: An Alternative Economic Narrative

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Fatores Condicionantes do Empreendedorismo: Redes Sociais ou Classes Sociais?

Fatores Condicionantes do Empreendedorismo: Redes Sociais ou Classes Sociais?

Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology: Notes on the Concept of (Dis)embeddedness*

‘Marketless Trading in Hammurabi’s Time’: A Re-appraisal

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