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Title	Fragments of texts – Economy and society
Author	Polanyi, Karl
Description	File contains Karl Polanyi’s hand-written and typed fragments of texts on economy and society, and economy in underdeveloped areas. Also included in the file are notes by Harry Pearson sent to Karl Polanyi. The notes are in English.
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/10694/791
Date	2010-09-10

Contents

[1] The concept of the economy and underdeveloped areas. […]

[2] The discovery: atomistic individualism - the situation of man with Owen it was the discovery of society […] Rousseau […]

Hobbes: a control social should be …

Adam Smith : […]

[4] The word economy is there used in two different senses, as Menger was the first to joint out with _____ emphasis. It may ____ fault that the passage ______ not knows to him since it has never yet been translated into English, ______ we will return presently.

On the other hand it might be that ___ _______ was copying ____ Menger's “two aspects of the economy, which indeed have “everything in common” since it is one and the same economy which can be looked upon once, once as an aggregate of objects, once as a group of persons dealing with those objects.[…] sphere of material livelihood whether or not …

[6] The process of rationalization that pervaded Western culture.

It has been said - Max Weber devoted his genius to this thesis - that the Western culture common source was the rise of science, technology and economic organization. Their separate emergences were then

[10] It has been said - Max Weber devoted his genius to this thesis - that the use of man's reason explains those modern {products} - science, technology and economic organization. It might […] [12] to develop into passions governed and stimulated beyond all rational ends by some instituted mechanisms, which alone accounts for the dialectical miracle of reason turning into unreason all along the time.

Harry Pearson fragments of texts

[18] => [25]

Other fragment

[25] => [28]