July 26, 2025
Commodified nature

IN his seminal book, The Great Transformation (1944), Karl Polanyi makes a case for how modern societies are characterised by the creation and use of three fictitious commodities — money, human labour, and land or nature.
His reason for labelling them fictitious was because they are exchanged in markets…
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