Globalization, Labor and the ‘Polanyi Problem’

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Ronaldo Munck is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Globalisation and Social Exclusion Unit at the University of Liverpool. Correspondence to: Department of Sociology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK. Email: r.p.munck@liv.ac.uk ‘Lumpers are comfortable with large categories that display considerable within‐group heterogeneity. Splitters want to create a new, homogeneous category for every small variation’ (Scott Acton, Classification of Psychopathology: Goals and Methods in an Empirical Approach, 15). Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 3. Ibid., 70. Ibid., 79. Ruggie, International Regimes, Transactions and Change, 379–415. See, for example, Prakash and Hart, Globalisation and Governance. Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 145. Ibid., 258. For a broad overview see Polanyi‐Levitt, The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi; Mendell and Sale´, The Legacy of Karl Polanyi. 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