OIKOS AND POLIS: ARISTOTLE, POLANYI AND THE LIBERAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Abstract
In this article strengths and limitations of Karl Polanyi’s criticism to liberal political economy and in particular his recovery of Aristotle’s economics are assessed. To that aim, I revise the “changing place” of politics in society and the way in which these changes have affected the relations of “embedment” between economy and politics. The review of these transformations may help us understand the historical relations of continuity and discontinuity between the politics of the Ancient Greek polis –as was thought by Aristotle- and the politics of the Modern Euro-Atlantic states –as was theorized by liberal authors like Constant and Berlin.
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