When was Karl Polanyi born?
25 October 1886
31 December 1890
1 January 1900
14 July 1879
Answer
Karl Polanyi was born on 25 October 1886 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was a Hungarian economist and sociologist, and one of the founders of economic anthropology. His best-known book is The Great Transformation, which was published in 1944. Polanyi argued that the market economy is not a natural phenomenon, but rather a human creation.
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