Karl Polanyi's Key Concepts in Economic history and Our Critical Comments on the Materialistic Conception of History : Further Discussion on the Anthropological Method of History

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  • ポランニーの経済史諸概念と唯物史観の認識をめぐって : 人類学的歴史学の方法再論 (社会経済史の構成方法を求めて : 具体的事例に即して)
  • ポランニーの経済史諸概念と唯物史観の認識をめぐって--人類学的歴史学の方法再論
  • ポランニー ノ ケイザイシ ショ ガイネン ト ユイブツシカン ノ ニンシキ

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Abstract

The very paper read at the national conference of Socio-Economic History Society of May, 1978, was already published at a periodical Shiso, No. 647, with the title of "Economic Anthropology and Economic History'. Therefore this newly writtem essay presents firstly economic anthropologists' radical concepts related to the origins of economic institutions, and secondly their comments on Marxist conception of history, as a complement to the above-mentioned paper. Polanyi, the founder of new economic anthropology, asserts that trade, money and market have their separate origins. Some forms of trade and various money uses gain great importance in economic life, independent of and precedent to markets. Even where market elements are presents, they do not necessarily involve the existence of a supply-demand price mechanism. Prices (equivalencies) are originally set by tradition, and their change, if it occurs, is brought about by such institutional means, not by market methods. Polanyist's (substantivist's) views naturally leads us to the position critical against Marxist economic history. We indicate that the substructure of society, production style, should not be purely materialistic, but just epistemological. Relating to this, a French Marxist, Louis Althusser's understanding about it and history can be regarded as thoughts with some same base as ours. Materialistic conception should be epistemological, if it is to try to keep valid.

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  • SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY

    SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY 44 (4), 323-341,426-42, 1979

    THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

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