Polanyi and Traffic (on grids)
Polanyi Karl Polanyi, in his book The Great Transformation, said essentially that the so-called self-regulating market, far from being spontaneous or flexible, is only maintained by a despotic grid of money and politics – a Weberian colossus without which the entire social edifice of this so-called “free” system would fall into chaos. Polanyi said that [...]