The two Karls, or reflections on Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

摘要

This reflection on Karl Polanyi's masterwork, The Great Transformation (1944), comes in response to a request by Jamie Peck to join a session on Polanyi at the gathering of the Association of American Geographers in 2012. I was initially doubtful about speaking on Polanyi, since I had not reopened the book since graduate school some forty years ago; my copy dated 1971, the year I started doctoral work, is even more weather beaten than I am. Scary to think that I entered graduate student that long ago, but good to know that I got off on the right foot by reading the likes of Polanyi at the outset.