Tag: Karl Polanyi

• May 16, 2026

  Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories

  One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a kind of “mental technology”: a way of seeing the world rationally, systematically, and productively. In his account, capitalism emerges from habits…

• October 14, 2014

  Why “there is no such thing as economic science”?

  I have recently referred to an interview made to Piketty where he states “there is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences”. He argues that “economic processes involve social control” and that “we should teach ‪economics‬ much more in conjunction with economic‪ ‎history‬, social history, political history, political science” That said, the…