substantivistn.adj.
/səbˈstantᵻvɪst/, U.S. /səbˈstæn(t)əvəst/ A. n.
A person who advocates a doctrine, system, or method of analysis founded on experience, evidence, and observation, in preference to theory; (Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and Economics) an opponent of the application of formal economic theories to precapitalist cultures.Applied esp. to the followers of Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), Austrian-born philosopher and economist, who argued that economic processes are shaped by a society's individual cultural and social institutions, and hence that capitalist models cannot be applied to non-market economies.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [noun] > analysis based on > advocate of
substantivist1946
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions > supporters of
tariffite1830
inflationist1876
tariffist1901
tariff-reformer1903
tariff-monger1904
deflationist1921
Nepman1922
redistributionist1939
growth-man1961
substantivist1967
fiscal engineer1977
supply-sider1980
1946 Mind 55 193 There is at present no common ground between the Substantivists and their opponents.
1967 Sociol. Abstr. 15 No. 1. 37/1 Insofar as an attempt is made by the substantivists to document a historical..linkage between econ[omic] theory & the market economy the end result is the documentation of a linkage between a particular system of..economy..& the 19th cent market economy.
1970 O. von Mering & L. Kasdan Anthropol. & Behavioral & Health Sci. 28 The continuing debate between ‘formalists’ and ‘substantivists’ over the uses of Karl Polanyi's substantive economics in analyzing economic behavior in different social orders.
1983 Diss. Abstr. Internat. 44 803/2 The group known as the ‘Substantivists’..proposed a ‘substantive’ approach, i.e. one that was better suited to the particular social, cultural and historical circumstances of the economies in question.
2005 G. Austin Labour, Land, & Capital in Ghana Introd. 7 The substantivists overestimated the degree to which economic phenomena are ‘embedded’ in their cultural and social contexts in ‘precapitalist’ societies.
B. adj.
Adhering to, proposing, or representing such a doctrine or method.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions
imperial1726
co-operative1821
protectionist1844
inflationist1876
rational1915
deflationist1921
rationalist1942
producer-oriented1946
redistributionist1949
substantivist1956
supply side1957
demand-pull1958
tax-and-spend1960
stop-and-go1961
stop-go1962
go-stop1964
supply-driven1973
demand-side1975
supply side1976
demand-driven1980
1956 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 16 161 Murti begins by distinguishing..two basically different traditions of Indian philosophy: the Vedic-Upanishadic,..a substantivist view, and the Buddhist.
1966 Amer. Anthropologist 68 ii. 323 Substantivist views continue to find expression in the literature without manifesting any noticeable concessions to the arguments of their critics.
1966 Amer. Anthropologist 68 ii. 336 Karl Polanyi and his followers, the Substantivist school of economic anthropology, are unanimous in their judgement that economic theory..is inapplicable to the study of ‘non-market’ or ‘primitive’ economies.
1978 B. Chapman Clarke's Analyt. Archaeol. (ed. 2) x. 428 The interpretation of these patterns depended upon the stimulus of developing ‘substantivist’ economic anthropology.
2011 A. Barnard Social Anthropol. & Human Origins v. 79 At its most extreme, the new ‘substantivist’ approach argued that economics held no universals, and its workings were embedded in culture, and embedded quite differently in different cultures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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