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[...] Polanyi has been rediscovered by critics of capitalism in recent years for two principal reasons. The first is his argument that capitalism only developed via the evolution of three "fictious commodities"--things that it must pretend are produced for sale on the market, but are not: land, lab…

[...] If wages were sufficiently flexible to clear all labour markets, then all firms would pay the same wage for the same work, and all workers could find work (the definition of market clearing). From a worker's perspective, quitting would be virtually costless. From an employer's perspective, co…

if the labour market ever worked the way neoclassical theory imagines it--if wages were flexible, Say's Law held, and all willing workers found jobs in some orthodox "full employment" dream--then workers would have no fear of "the sack."

[...] in capitalism the realms of market and the firm are in fact necessary complements. There is choice regarding markets and hierarchies because both are essential to capitalist relations of production, distribution, and consumption. [...] the capitalist firm is a response to the information, coo…