Whatever happened to householding?
Chris Gregory
Polanyi's contribution to the history of economic thought is not so much as a theorist value but conceptual tool-maker and tool-user. “The study shifting place occupied by economy in society,” he noted (Polanyi 1957b: 250), “no other than manner which process instituted at different times places. This requires special tool box.” Polanyi “tool-user” historian, author The Great Transformation (1944), his classic “shifting place” nineteenth-century England. “tool-maker” concept-builder who fills toolbox with general concepts gathered from single-case studies, refines them logical distinctions sharpest kind, orders neatly rows columns tool-box.
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