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Today I will talk about a person, who was expert in the political economy, history and philosophy, called Karl Polanyi. This person was born on October 25, 1886, in Vienna, when this country still belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His life was marked by the World Wars and the economic crisis. For this reasons, Karl Polanyi had to emigrate two times. The first time was when the fascist influence began to grow in Vienna, so he moved to London, where he was a teacher at Oxford University. The second time was when the Columbia University offer him a teacher position, so he and his wife planned to move to USA but due to the political activism of his wife (who was communist), she couldn't obtain a visa, forcing the couple to move to Toronto, Canada.

Karl Polanyi is recognized by the book The Great Transformation. This book is a direct criticism to the liberal model of economy. His main argument is the naturalization of the hommo-economicus. His work is based in statistical, historical, philosophical and economical data. And I like him because he worked with information from different fields of knowledge.

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