| Summary: | The Livelihood of Man, posthumous work of Karl Polanyi, is now available in French. In a historical perspective this book, primarily theoretical, leans on the role of the economy in society. It discusses the theoretical foundations of neoclassical, or classical schools in some respects, and offers: firstly a battery concepts to explain the embedding or disembedding of the economy; secondly different models to explain institutional differences between old economies and economies where the market system plays a crucial role. Polanyi’s critics of the neoclassical school ask original questions whose acuity does not always find itself in its propositions. The polanyien theoretical model does not really include unthought of the neoclassical theory, even though if all empirical evidence, to integrate the unthought to the model, can be found in The Livelihood of Man.
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