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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our

Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. 1944. Reprint, Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Why this matters here

Polanyi's history argues that market arrangements are institutionally created rather than simply natural. The chapter invokes that argument when examining how mortgage practices become ordinary expectations.