Plociniczak, Sébastien <br/><br/>
Beyond a Certain Standard: Reading of The Great Transformation 

 -  2007.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Whereas a largely conveyed standard reading of The Great Transformation lets one think that Karl Polanyi establishes the effective birth certificate of a self-regulated market at the nineteenth century in the West, this text suggests that The Great Transformation makes Polanyi the author of a criticism of the theoretical fiction of the self-regulated market, and the historian of this acting fiction which directs individual behaviors and transforms in-depth the Western societies of the nineteenth century.