Karl Polanyi and the Reappraisal of Happiness Economics

The article contains a review of the contemporary research in the field of economics of happiness. Economics of happiness deals with correlation between the subjective notion of well-being and happiness with ones life (happiness level) and economic indicators. The author considers the correlation of economic and noneconomic factors. The last ones — such as education and health — also affect the level of happiness. The author dwells upon the following questions: research methodology in economics of happiness, correlation between subjective notion of well-being and happiness with ones life and economic performance on micro- and macrolevels.

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La Economía solidaria: ¿Un discurso aglutinador o la posible expresión de un “contramovimiento”?

revistapuce ◽

10.26807/revpuce.vi110.268 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Daniela Mora V. ◽

Paola Lozada

Keyword(s):

Karl Polanyi ◽

Sociedad Civil

El estudio de aquella parte de la economía que ha sido excluida del enfoque económico ortodoxo usualmente encuentra asidero en las propuestas económicas alternativas derivadas del trabajo seminal de Karl Polanyi, quien analiza la necesidad de “reincrustar” la economía en la sociedad, de cara a los devastadores efectos que han tenido el surgimiento y la consolidación de la economía de mercado; al tiempo que estudia la conformación de una respuesta desde de la sociedad civil a los excesos de la misma, a la que llama ‘contramovimiento’. Sobre dicha base, y con un necesario matiz basado en las particularidades históricas, económicas y políticas de la región latinoamericana, se analiza en qué medida la economía solidaria podría, además de constituir un discurso aglutinador, pasar a representar un contramovimiento, al canalizar la búsqueda de transformación social a través de prácticas económicas alternativas en el Ecuador, en un contexto en que los modelos neoliberales de desarrollo basados en el crecimiento económico y el desmantelamiento del Estado perpetúan la exclusión y la falta de representatividad social real. Mediante una serie de entrevistas a actores clave, sustentadas en revisión documental, se llega a determinar algunos elementos indispensables para el desafío que la acción colectiva organizada bajo el discurso de la economía solidaria aún representa en el país, para poder pensarse como un contramovimiento.

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Le libéralisme économique n'est pas une fatalité. Lire ou relire Karl Polanyi

Autres Temps Les cahiers du christianisme social ◽

10.3406/chris.1998.2092 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 89-93

Author(s):

Philippe Wender

Keyword(s):

Karl Polanyi

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Karl Polanyi and the Anti-Antimonies of Embeddednesss

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3166769 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ali Lodhi

Keyword(s):

Karl Polanyi

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Gift Exchange as Narrative and Metaphor

Philosophical Literary Journal Logos ◽

10.22394/0869-5377-2019-6-229-250 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (6) ◽

pp. 229-252

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Political Economy ◽

Social Science ◽

Gift Exchange ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Economic Anthropology ◽

Karl Polanyi ◽

Commodity Exchange ◽

Economic Theories ◽

Characteristic Features

The article deals with characteristic features of economic anthropology"s rhetoric of reciprocity and analyzes the factors that affected its formation. The authors consider two principal interpretations of reciprocity in economic anthropology that were formed under the influence of its two main founders - Malinowski and Mauss. The characteristic features of their two types of rhetoric are discussed together with the purposes for which they were used. Two different intentions were pivotal for the work of these researchers and their followers: first, to establish economic anthropology as a positivistic science; and second, to use the analysis of archaic societies as evidence for their critique of a capitalistic economy.To achieve the first task they actively used rhetoric borrowed from the natural sciences, and especially from biology as well as from economic theories that were another social science also striving for a more rigorous positivism. For the second task they turned to the rhetoric of political economy and used arguments based on a dialectical opposition between commodity exchange and gift exchange. The most prominent example of such dialectical rhetoric is in the works of Chris Gregory and Karl Polanyi in which gift exchange was interpreted as a metaphor for a utopian alternative to capitalistic commodity exchange. Because the rhetoric of economic anthropology from its inception to the present has been profoundly influenced by the language of general economic theory, the article examines the genesis of the rhetoric of economics as a science. This leads to an analysis of how the language of economics was affected by the rhetoric of the natural sciences, then of psychology and finally of law.

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