Karl Polanyi
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Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian economic historian and social theorist best known for his influential work "The Great Transformation," which critiqued market liberalism and analyzed the social and political origins of modern capitalist economies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl Polanyi canonical | 25 |
| Polanyi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Polanyi Context triple: [John Polanyi, relative, Karl Polanyi]
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Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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B.
Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Schumpeter was an influential Austrian-American economist best known for his theories of innovation, entrepreneurship, and “creative destruction” in capitalist economies.
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C.
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich Hayek was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism, free-market capitalism, and critiques of central economic planning.
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D.
Karl Menger
Karl Menger was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher known for his work in dimension theory, geometry, and the foundations of probability and economics.
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E.
Max Weber
Max Weber was a pioneering German sociologist, economist, and political theorist whose work on bureaucracy, authority, and the Protestant ethic profoundly shaped modern social science.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Polanyi Target entity description: Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian economic historian and social theorist best known for his influential work "The Great Transformation," which critiqued market liberalism and analyzed the social and political origins of modern capitalist economies.
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A.
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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B.
Joseph Schumpeter
Joseph Schumpeter was an influential Austrian-American economist best known for his theories of innovation, entrepreneurship, and “creative destruction” in capitalist economies.
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C.
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich Hayek was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism, free-market capitalism, and critiques of central economic planning.
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D.
Karl Menger
Karl Menger was an Austrian mathematician and philosopher known for his work in dimension theory, geometry, and the foundations of probability and economics.
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E.
Max Weber
Max Weber was a pioneering German sociologist, economist, and political theorist whose work on bureaucracy, authority, and the Protestant ethic profoundly shaped modern social science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economic historian
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human ⓘ political economist ⓘ social theorist ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Dahomey and the Slave Trade
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The Great Transformation ⓘ The Livelihood of Man ⓘ Trade and Market in the Early Empires ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1886-10-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Austria-Hungary
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linked to:
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Vienna ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Hungary ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1964-04-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Budapest
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University of Kolozsvár ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Hungarian
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linked to:
Hungarians
|
| familyName |
Polanyi
ⓘ
linked to:
Karl Polanyi
|
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology of economy
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economic history ⓘ political economy ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Karl ⓘ |
| influenced |
Karl Marx scholarship
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development studies ⓘ economic sociology ⓘ new economic sociology ⓘ political economy of welfare states ⓘ world-systems theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Austro-Marxism
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linked to:
Western Marxism
Karl Marx ⓘ Max Weber ⓘ Émile Durkheim ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
comparative economic systems
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critique of market liberalism ⓘ embeddedness of the economy in society ⓘ origins of modern capitalism ⓘ |
| movement |
institutional economics
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substantivist economic anthropology ⓘ |
| name | Karl Polanyi ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
double movement
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embeddedness of the economy ⓘ fictitious commodities ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Great Transformation ⓘ |
| occupation |
economic historian
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university teacher ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sibling | Michael Polanyi ⓘ |
| spouse | Ilona Duczynska ⓘ |
| workedAt |
Bennington College
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Columbia University ⓘ |
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Referenced by (26)
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linked to: Karl Polanyi