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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
Volume 45, Issue 7, Pages 1545-1568Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1068/a45236
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Karl Polanyi; economic geography; substantivism; institutionalism; comparative economy
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Karl Polanyi has been an influential but also somewhat elusive figure in economic geography. Best known for his evocative notion of social embeddedness, it is perhaps fitting that Polanyi's presence has been more metaphorical than substantive. The paper asks what a more engaged Polanyian economic geography might look like. Focusing on methodological affinities, a response is developed in terms of a commitment to the substantivist (as opposed to formal) analysis of actually existing economic formations, together with a more purposive embrace of institutionalism, holism, and comparativism.
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