"As was rightly pointed out by Karl Polanyi in the 1940s , the 19th century laissez-faire regime can be thought of as one in which society is forced to conform to the needs of the market mechanism. "Instead of the economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the economic system" in this laissez-faire regime. However, it was precisely because of this that the system gradually disintegrated from the early 20th century into economic and social chaos. "Since society was made to conform to the needs of the market mechanism, imperfections in the functioning of that mechanism created cumulative strains on the body social.""
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Eisuke Sakakibara
Eisuke Sakakibara (born March 27, 1941) is a Japanese economist, Professor at Keio University, and former Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, who was known as "Mr Yen".
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