Rights Arrangement "For the Market" VS. Protecting Society "To Discard Marketization": On the debate between Douglas North and Karl Polanyi 

波兰尼的《大转型》在很大程度上建立于对劳动力、土地和货币的“虛拟商品化”的批评之上；但在打造该理论基石时，波兰尼犯了一个根本性错误：将市场交易对象视为实物，而不是（基于物的）人的、行使一定实在行为的权利。这导致其“嵌入”、“巿场社会”、“社会保护”等论述显得异常含糊，不甚精确。比较波兰尼和诺思的思想，有助于我们认识确立经济社会分析的恰当的基本单位——权力和正确的权利关——的价值，以及建构良好的分析性理论的必要性。

Karl Polanyi's idea of "the Great Transformation" mainly based its theory on the comment that labor, land, and money were treated as fictitious commodities in the 19lh century; however, Polanyi made a mistake in this cornerstone of his theory: He considered what exchanged in the market as a physical entity instead of a right to perform certain (physical) actions. Thus his analysis of "embeddedness", "market society", and "social protection" are vague and imprecise. Comparing Polanyi's idea with that of Douglas North would be helpful for us to understand the importance of the establishment of a proper, basic unit of analysis in the study of economic of sociology, and the necessarity of setting up a suitable analysis theory.

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