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Also Known As Karl Paul Polanyi
Born October 25, 1886 • Vienna • Austria
Died April 23, 1964 (aged 77) • Canada
Notable Works “Dahomey and the Slave Trade” • “The Great Transformation” • “Trade and Markets in the Early Empires”
Subjects Of Study economic system • market • Dahomey • slave trade
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Romer, Paul
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John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
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George A. Akerlof
George A. Akerlof
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Joan Robinson
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Ludwig Erhard, 1962.
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Antoine-Augustin Cournot
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William Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Eric Kennington, 1908; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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