- logic,
captured in
economic modeling.
Economic anthropology Formalist–
substantivist debate Polanyi, Karl (1957). "The
Economy as
Instituted Process". In...
- Cook
observed that
there are
significant conceptual problems with
substantivists’ theories: "They
define economics as an
aspect of
everything that provisions...
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between a
variety of
types of
exchange within market societies. Neo-
substantivists examine the ways in
which so-called pure
market exchange in
market societies...
- 'undersocialized account' that
atomises human behavior. Similarly, he argued,
substantivists had an "over-socialized" view of
economic actors,
refusing to see the...
-
societies just as they do
Western ones.
Starting in the 1950s, however,
substantivists such as Karl
Polanyi challenged these ideas,
arguing instead that primitive...
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attacks formalists and
substantivists alike: "those who
start by
looking at
society as a
whole are left, like the
Substantivists,
trying to
explain how...
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articles Critique of
political economy Original affluent society Formalist–
substantivist debate The
Great Transformation Peasant economics Culture of poverty...
- irrational.
Substantivists, on the
other hand,
allow that
noninstrumental desires may also be irrational. In this regard, a
substantivist could claim...
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articles Critique of
political economy Original affluent society Formalist–
substantivist debate The
Great Transformation Peasant economics Culture of poverty...
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collects some of Sahlins's key
essays in
substantivist economic anthropology. As
opposed to "formalists,"
substantivists insist that
economic life is produced...
