The Economic Thought of Michael Polanyi

ISBN-13: 9780367245634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 188 str.

Gabor Biro

Opis

Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction ONE / Polanyi's Work Against Extreme Liberalism and Socialist Planning TWO / The First Economics Film THREE / Rival Schools of Thought in the 1930s and 1940s FOUR / Polanyi's Visual Method FIVE / Correspondence on the Spirituality of Science and Economics SIX / Economic Evil and Machineness EPILOGUE / Towards a Polanyian Personal Economics References Index

O autorze

Gábor Bíró is an Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. He was awarded the History of Economics Society 'Craufurd Goodwin Best Article Prize' in 2021 for his paper on Michael Polanyi and the first economics film published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.