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Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was a member of the editorial team of Der Österreichische Volkswirt from 1924 to 1938, when the journal interrupted publication as a result of the Anschluss.
Part of this paper is a reduced and revised version of M. C., “Prelude to The Great Transformation”, in K. McRobbie, ed., Humanity, Society and Commitment. On Karl Polanyi, Montréal/New York/London: Black Rose Books, 1994, chapter 2.
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Notes
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See below, attached to this paper, the advertisement of the Ö. V. in The Economist, May 26, 1934.
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Also the editor, founder and publisher of the journal, Walther Federn, had later to emigrate; he died on February 1, 1949, in New York. Polanyi was doing his job in that city since 1947, as visiting professor at the Columbia University; he wrote in German an “Eulogy for Walther Federn” (ms., Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Montreal, K. Polanyi Archive Catalogue, box 14, file 16) probably intended for a meeting of common friends in Vienna.
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Shortly before Hitler’s rise to power, he dedicated two articles to this question: “Gleichberechtigung und Völkerbund”, 25 June 1932, and “Gleichberechtigung un die deutsche Linke”, 22 October 1932.
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See “Roosevelt zerschlägt die Konferenz”, 8 July 1933. N. B.: from here on Polanyi’s articles in the Ö. V. are referred to in the text by their title and date.
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Four articles in the Ö. V., vol. XXVI, 1934, amounting to a long essay: “Lohntarif-Bill für Lancashire”, May 26; “Lancashire im Fegefeuer”, June 2; “Lancashire as Menschheitsfrage”, June 23; “Lancashire as Menschheitsproblem”, June 30.
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Apart from the obvious reference to Carl Schmitt’s ideas, there is a close correspondence between Polanyi’s interpretation of the history of the twentieth century and that recently expounded by Eric Hobsbawm 1994.
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Cangiani, M. (2011). “A Staggering World”: Karl Polanyi’s Contribution to Der Österreichische Volkswirt . In: Backhaus, J. (eds) The Beginnings of Scholarly Economic Journalism. The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0079-0_1
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