Polanyi goes to America
Mike Konczal, 2021. Freedom from The Market: America’s Fight To Liberate Itself From The Grip Of The Invisible Hand . 1st ed. New York: The New Press. Upon finishing Freedom from the Market , I was left with an unsettling impression. Rarely had I read a book were a thinker (Karl Polanyi) is so omnipresent and yet so rarely mentioned (only twice throughout the whole book). But the result is rather fascinating. Freedom from the Market is a short, sharp and incisive book in which Mike Konczal brilliantly makes the case for a radically new way to think about freedom and economic opportunities. In many ways, Freedom from the Market is the antithesis of Capitalism and Freedom , a book widely regarded as the New Testament of free-market conservatives. Therein, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman notably argues that political freedom and the market form of freedom are intrinsically related. The ‘impersonal market’, Friedman claims, protects people from discriminations based ‘on their views or t