...of the supposedly 'self-regulating' system required continuous meddling and monitoring by the state: The road to the free market was opened and kept open...centrally organised and controlled interventionism' (ibid.: 76). Polanyi described this as a 'double movement': While on the one hand markets spread all...

...mobilization of wage labor has required concerted, yet invariably problematic, institutional intervention. The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally-organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith's "simple and natural liberty"...

...expect the development of a market economy to be spontaneous. In the case of England, Polanyi finds that "the road to the free market was opened and kept...open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism." 23 Governments also provided dynamics in transforming other...

...need only examine Karl Polanyi's analysis of the industrial revolution in England to appreciate how "the road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism." Contrary to the view of many modem free-market ideologues,...

...observations concerning the English experience in the nineteenth century have more general validity: 'The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. . . . [T]he introduction of free markets, far from doing...

...benefit from an expansion of an integrated networking world. Karl Polanyi argued half a century ago that "[t|he road to the free market was opened and kept open by the enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism."2' The reality...

...to have emerged 'spontaneously', state intervention played a critical role in the process. He argues that: '[t]he road to the free market was opened and...centrally organised and controlled interventionism (italics added). To make Adam Smith's "simple and 11 Lange's defence of socialist planning may be an...

...arena of politics. As Polanyi argued in relation to the transformation to market capitalism in Europe, 'The road to the free market was opened and kept open...centrally organised and controlled interventionism' (Polanyi 1957: 140). This not only means enforcing the policy agendas of free trade and open labour...

...however, is blatantly not the case. Over half a century ago, to repeat, Polanyi (1944: 140) recognized that 'the road to the free market was opened and kept...open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized, and controlled interventionism.' As such, the commodification of economic life has been...

...uncontrolled and uncontrollable frenzy of entrepreneurial activity. However, it is important to remember that the 'road to the free market was opened and kept...open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled inter ventionism' (Polanyi 1955: 140 quoted in Scott 1996: 107). The dotcom...