New views on price-making markets and the capitalist impulse: beyond Polanyi

Anthropologists have persistently diminished the importance of the market and marketplace exchange in premodern, preindustrial times. This strident anti-market mentality, derived largely from the writings of Karl Polanyi, underpins an ideological and politicized argument that neither sets useful gui...

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Main Authors: Richard E. Blanton, Gary M. Feinman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Dynamics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1339903/full