Understanding and shaping the transformation of the 21st century. Putting the economy in its place.
10/06/2025
REMINDER! Tomorrow in Linz at 17:30 Isabella Weber, Helene Schuberth, Hanna Braun & Ulrich Brand will have a discussion on RAILS, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS - SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESTRUCTURING AS ANTIFASCIST ECONOMIC POLICY. Register here: https://veranstaltung.akooe.at/de/umbau/registration
Liebe Kolleg:innen,
die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit erfordern neue Antworten. Inmitten multipler Krisen braucht es eine Wirtschaftspolitik, die die Demokratie stärkt – nicht schwächt.
Wir laden herzlich ein zur hybriden Veranstaltung:
Schienen, Schulen, Spitäler- Sozialer und ökologischer Umbau als antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik
Es diskutieren:
Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Helene Schuberth (Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund)
Hanna Braun (Attac Österreich)
Ulrich Brand (Universität Wien)
Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme und eine lebendige Diskussion!
23/05/2025
Putting international scholars like Lucas Chancel front and center in our Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professorship with Central European University WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) and Universität Wien and working together with our friends from the VHS Wien where Polanyi was teaching a century ago, is always a pleasure.
08/05/2024
We are excited to announce our expert workshop on "Planning for Climate Change" funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation! Join us on May 22nd at 1:30 pm WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) to explore the role of planning for socio-ecological transformation. Register now at [email protected] to hear experts on the topic and be a part of the dialogue! Rosalux-Europa For more visit: https://www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2024/05/08/workshop-planning-for-climate-change/
Join us on May 22nd to explore the role of planning for socio-ecological transformation.
23/04/2024
60 years ago today one of the great thinkers of the previous century passed away. His oevre however is most relevant today. We cordially invite you to visit Polanyi’s writings and legacy on May 21st at 6pm at WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) when and present the “Routledge Handbook on Karl Polanyi” and discuss with and 7th ! Stay tuned for more! Rosalux-Europa Routledge Books
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15/03/2024
JOIN US! Panel discussion LIVE-STREAM: https://vimeo.com/event/4101257/embed discusses his new book FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS on Monday March 18th at 6:30 pm with Helga Kromp-Kolb, and Michaela Neumann
If you want to attend in Vienna you can still register here: https://www.wu.ac.at/mlgd/events/registration-for-the-book-presentation-panel/
WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) Central European University BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Institute of Social Ecology Vienna Studienvertretung VW.SozÖk.SEEP European Society for Ecological Economics Climate Action Coalition at the University of Alberta Ecological Economics Ecological Economics International Society for Ecological Economics Degrowth Vienna Universität Wien University of Leeds University of Leeds Sustainability
19/02/2024
Just a quick Monday reminder for all students at WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) Central European University and Universität Wien following us, the application process for the PhD seminar THE MIGRATION TURN with is still open! For more information go to https://karlpolanyisociety.com/polanyi-guest-professorship/information-for-students/
14/02/2024
We are happy to announce Professor Attila Melegh as our seventh Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor for the summer term 2024! In the course of his visit to Vienna, he will traditionally hold a PhD-seminar, an Internal Workshop at Central European University and an open lecture.
Sociologist, economist and historian Attila Melegh is a professor at Corvinus University, Budapest and a senior researcher at the Demographic Research Institute. His research focuses on the global social change in the 20th century, the care crisis and international migration. Professor Melegh is also an expert on the works of Karl Polanyi and was founding director of the Karl Polanyi Research Center of Global Social Studies at Corvinus University.
Find out more about Attila Melegh and our on our website: https://www.karlpolanyisociety.com/
WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) Universität Wien Central European University VHS Wien Stadt Wien
09/11/2023
Good Morning! Listen to on Ö1 talking about the collaborative scientific assessment report by the APCC on “Structures for climate-friendly living”, the necessity of multiperspectivism, collaborate action in numerous directions and that there is no single solution! https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20231109/739393/Oe1-Journal-um-acht WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
08/11/2023
After a fruitful discussion tonight, we cordially invite you to our final webinar of our Fall Series on "Decent Care for All within Planetary Boundaries"
On Wednesday, November 22nd at 6pm we Roland Atzmüller, Kimey Pflücke, Andrea Vetter and Christa Wichterich will speak on "TRANSFORMATIVE CARE & CHANGEING SOCIETIES"
The final webinar will deal with the simultaneous, sometimes contradictory changes in societies and aspects of power and power relations that inhibit, support and accelerate transformative change. Tendencies of deindustrialization of former industrial centers and die pauperization of rural areas as well as tendencies of digitization lead to questions about how care and the planetary boundaries are negotiated. Are they even negotiated? Are social and ecological sustainability discussed jointly in this context?
Thank you Rosalux-Europa!
08/11/2023
REMINDER! Join us for our third webinar tonight at 6pm with Attila Melegh, Corinna Dengler, Fabienne Décieux and Raphael Deindl.
The third webinar will link the work of our visiting professors Julia Steinberger (summer 2023) and Attila Melegh (summer 2024), to establish the nexus between decent living standards within planetary boundaries and care in the current national and international crisis. We will focus on questions such as: How can the current care crisis be addressed nationally and internationally? What are the basic resource requirements, namely energy, to ensure decent care for all? What is the role of non-material caring needs? How can decent levels of care be met without transgressing planetary limits? What is the social and ecological impact of care provisioning through transnational care chains?
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The International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS) is an association of engaged citizens, researchers, teachers, activists, journalists and professionals from diverse policy fields based on the rich intellectual, moral and political legacy of Karl Polanyi and the vivid scientific and public debates he has inspired.
The International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS) aims at putting the economy in its place. The “economy”, a sphere of social life that should organize the livelihood so that people can live well, has become the dominant societal domain, intruding in all spheres of life in an aggressive, “imperialist” way. Hospitals, schools and care centers “commercialize” their services, researchers “sell” their knowledge; companies “buy” CO2-emission rights, politicians manipulate the “electoral market”. The economistic language is instructive for a society that is losing its sense of social responsibility, citizenship and democratic zeal, increasingly subordinating everything to the economistic rationale of optimizing.
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IKPS will counter this civilization shift. It aims at putting the economy in its place again, as a serving, alimental and supportive activity in a flourishing social, cultural and ecological civilization. To counter the currently dominant market society, it is decisive to understand the deep changes our societies are undergoing. In line with Karl Polanyi´s reasoning, three issues are crucial in shaping our common future:
Freedom for all in a complex society: Current market society celebrates individual freedom to choose. While acknowledging the virtues of non-conformism and market freedom, this economistic dominance is endangering the positive freedom to live in a democratic society, which shapes its future collectively. A democratic mode of living needs to strike the balance between the individual right to choose and the societal necessity of a democratic polity to create rules and infrastructures that enable freedom for all. >>> read in more detail
The future of civilization: Karl Polanyi was worried about how humankind will survive the perils of industrial civilization. Today, genetic and biological engineering as well as digitalization are inspiring dystopian futures of total control and bio-physical destruction. As no return to a past before the machine age is possible, a burning question for the future of our civilization is on the table: Will humankind be able to use, steer and regulate technology in a democratic and civilized way, avoiding authoritarian versions of global market control? >>> read in more detail
Understand and shape alternatives to the Market Society by strengthening and popularizing pluralist economies and experimenting with democratic forms of governance inspired by Karl Polanyi. The IKPS invites entrepreneurs, trade union members, researchers, activists and citizens to experiment with social innovations that go beyond the current market society and organize the livelihood by integrating social, ecological, cultural and economic needs. It invites politicians, policy makers, researchers, activists and citizens to rethink the “political” as the domain that deliberates on and shapes the common good, democratically and collectively. >>> read in more detail
In the upcoming years, the activities of the IKPS will focus on understanding and shaping the contemporary transformations in the fields of
Market fundamentalism
Universal capitalism
The relationship between capitalism and democracy
The relationship between economic and political liberalism
A disembedded economic system and the ecological crisis
Digitalization and the “machine age”
The marketization of knowledge, academia and science
