One of Polanyi's key theories is a "double movement" that arises out of a trend to push towards free market deregulation of the economy. ... This was in such to safeguard trade so that it was unable to be manipulated with civil society's power to dictate and determine prices on its value merits. ... Polanyi builds his argument by defining the foundation for free market economies. ... This facilitates the freeing up market economies with greater allowance for competitive forces to determine prices. ... In reality, he theorizes there will fail to exist a market economy that consists of...

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In Hobbes' work, "Leviathan," the reader is informed of his ideas and theories on the creation of a city-state in which its people are freed from the "state of nature." Hobbes' state closely follows the idea of the "bourgeois man," we can see evidence of this in the way he describes the roles of the citizens within his state. ... In C.B Macpherson's article, Hobbes' "Bourgeois Man," he argues that Hobbes' commonwealth puts an extreme emphasis on pride, or vainglory being among the most basic of individual drives that we hold has humans, and further dives i...

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