tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post5803267148173721323..comments2024-03-28T07:36:19.697+00:00Comments on Excuse Me Whilst I Step Outside: Polanyi QuotesCharlieMcMenaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00942021756417667913noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-15610233319019376612009-03-23T09:24:00.000+00:002009-03-23T09:24:00.000+00:00Tom,If you've ever suffered your way through the d...Tom,<BR/>If you've ever suffered your way through the dreadful prose of some things taught on mid-1970s sociology degrees (yes, M.Althusser, I'm pointing at you....) as I have then Polanyi is a breeze. It takes a while to get going but is increasingly rewarding as Coatsey suggests above.<BR/><BR/>Since the days I suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous marxist structuralism as a spotty 19 CharlieMcMenaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00942021756417667913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-23347612795592163342009-03-23T09:10:00.000+00:002009-03-23T09:10:00.000+00:00One of the books I keep meaning to have a crack at...One of the books I keep meaning to have a crack at. What kind of read is it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3225795457407230638.post-65578046268404796462009-03-22T11:57:00.000+00:002009-03-22T11:57:00.000+00:00It's a very important book. Glad that you like it....It's a very important book. Glad that you like it. Still, if you think his ideas on commodities are odd, he's got some line on pre-history and Potlach (like the situationists, exchange without equivalent) that bears on this.<BR/><BR/>It was recently that I finally got to reading it (he keeps getting quoted). The Great Transformation greatly impressed me largely for its account of the uprooting Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com