Strange title huh.\u00a0 I want to start by saying, as I have heard by some of you say and I quote \u201cthis is hard\u201d.\u00a0 Yep, it is!\u00a0 I have to be honest, I am struggling trying to find interest in the topics this semester.\u00a0 I\u2019m struggling hard, and I am also struggling with my NPO so \u201cugh, this is hard\u201d!\u00a0 The last few books are the first time I have needed to do hardcore research on the book instead of trying to glean understanding from any of the reading.\u00a0 I know Prof. Clark has talked about this, but it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve needed it and it brings mind the bookstore with all the topics \u201cfor Dummies\u201d.\u00a0 I\u2019m not calling myself a dummy, but sometimes I wonder\u2026just kidding.<\/p>\n
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I bought my book from a used books store in good condition, and here is how it arrived: \u00a0full of marks and notes.\u00a0 I was hoping so much that it was going to help me glean more information from the inspectory reading, but alas it just confused me more.\u00a0 Almost every page is written on and underlined and all the ways How to take smart notes<\/em> by Sonke Ahrens, and from whomever I bought this book from might have read that book.\u00a0 It does not make for an easy access for a first time reader.\u00a0 So that was barrier #2, #1 being Economics and #2 this book.\u00a0 Ahh, but such is the life of a doctoral student.<\/p>\n \n I found online a short, concise essay called \u201cThe Summary of the Great Transformation by Polanyi\u201d, on WEA Pedagogy website by Asad Zaman\u00a0 Clever name isn\u2019t it, but either way it helped me understand Karls work and in case any of you need it I thought I\u2019d give you the six point summary in case you need it. Unfortunately I am having trouble telling you where in the book I found it as this article did not cite it\u2019s sources!\u00a0 Here is a quick summary; 1. All Societies face the economic task of producing and providing for all members of society. 2. Market mechanisms for providing goods to members conflict with other social mechanisms and are harmful to society. 3.Unregulated markets are so deadly to human society and environment that creation of markets automatically sets into play movements to protect society and environment from the harm that they cause. 4. Certain ideologies, which relate to land, abour and money, and the profit motive are required for efficient functioning of markets. 5. Markets have been fragile and crisis-prone and have lurched from disater to disaster, as amply\u00a0 illustrated by\u00a0 GFC 2007. 6.Market economies require imposition by violence\u2014either natural or created. [1]<\/a><\/p>\n \n If you are like me, even summing it down to these 6 points was a challenge, but I will share with you what did help me from this article.\u00a0 Perhaps me not understanding Polanyi\u2019s work has to do with my framework.\u00a0Asad Zaman states in his blog summary above \u201cA major obstacle to understanding Polanyi is the fact that living in a market society shapes our mindsets and behaviours, making it difficult to imagine radical alternatives. Understanding Polanyi requires standing outside the streams of history which have shaped mondern societies\u201d. [2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 This stood out to me in my life experiences.\u00a0 When trying to help a church from closing it\u2019s door, we had a consultant who came in and encouraged us to take a balcony view.\u00a0 He used the church building as a way to embody this practice.\u00a0 The consultant told us how hard it is to see everything happening in a situation to truly see what is happening and see where we came from where we are and where we are going and to do this all at once, the best way is to go to the balcony for the view.\u00a0 Zaman noted in his article that the only way to understand our economy is to \u201cstand outside the streams of history which have shaped mondern societies\u201d[3]<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n All of this to say, that our readings of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism <\/em>by\u00a0 Weber, and this book, The Great Transformation<\/em> by Polanyi are giving us a balcony view.\u00a0 If we are to lead, whether it is within a church or outside of the church, we need to do as these great authors did, step back or climb the stairs and get out the frey and\u00a0 see from outside what is happening and how to lead forward.<\/p>\n \n May we all (even if we have to utilize the \u201cfor dummies\u201d approach) to speak into our areas of call from the balcony!<\/p>\n [1]<\/a> https:\/\/weapedagogy.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [2]<\/a> https:\/\/weapedagogy.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [3]<\/a> https:\/\/weapedagogy.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Strange title huh.\u00a0 I want to start by saying, as I have heard by some of you say and I quote \u201cthis is hard\u201d.\u00a0 Yep, it is!\u00a0 I have to be honest, I am struggling trying to find interest in the topics this semester.\u00a0 I\u2019m struggling hard, and I am also struggling with my NPO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2890,2489,4],"class_list":["post-33724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balconyview","tag-dlgp02","tag-polanyi","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions\/33725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}