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Michael Perelman,                                          
 
Apart from the question of the law's or the church's motivation regarding 
some kind of a 'traditional society': wouldn't the fact that they were 
"concerned with controlling the spread of the market" mean that markets 
were so important that they had to be controlled? 
 
So far I really was under the impression that we are talking about the same 
subject. But after reading your comment to Olav Velthuis' remark I wonder - 
running the risk of leading the discussion into a very different direction 
- if you might defend Polanyi's market-criticism on a normative level while 
I argue against Polanyi's interpretation of economic history (and related 
dogmas in the history of pre-classical economic thought).  
 
A nice weekend to everyone. 
 
Thomas Moser 
Center for Research of Economic Activity (KOF) 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) 
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