Peter Drucker, The Polanyis

Karl retreated into footnotes, into more and more anthropological studies, and into academic busyness. […] He still divined the “real truth behind the news, and was as conspiratorial, as labyrinthine, as clever as ever. […] He still talked of the search for the “alternative and of harmony between human freedom and economic development. He still expected to find “alternative every time he tackled the study of a new primitive or early culture. […] But soon he would turn antiquarian, concerned with minutiae, with textual criticism and emendation, and with “scholarship for its own sake. Where earlier he had been prone to sweeping generalizations, he increasingly became a footnote hound. [138]

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See Also

• ROBBIE Kenneth Mc, [2000b] “Old, Badly Peeled, Half-Raw Potatoes’ and Peter F. Drucker’s Other Myths About Karl Polanyi”, chap. 32 of POLANYI-LEVITT / Mc ROBBIE (eds.) 2000, p. 359-377</ref>.