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Karl Polanyi  

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  • Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was a Hungarian historian and political economist. His pathbreaking critique of neoclassical economics is regarded as one of the most important contributions to social scientific thought in the twentieth century. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Polanyi, Karl]

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