logo
ISSN: 1870-1442

:: Number 54 (May - August 2026)

Editorial

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas

Theme and contact

Special issue on Karl Polanyi and The Great Transformation

Karl Polanyi finished writing The Great Transformation in 1944. At that time, Europe was ablaze, and liberal capitalism was collapsing under its own contradictions. His diagnosis was devastating: a self-regulating market is not a natural phenomenon but a political construct, sustained by force and generating —almost with clockwork precision— its own social reaction. Eighty years later, that thesis is more unsettling than reassuring. Not because the world is the same as it was then, but because the differences are, in several ways, aggravating factors.

More...


Call for papers: special issue Keynes at ninety years

Analysis

 1
The world faces another Great Transformation: deregulated markets, artificial intelligence, and new forms of fascism
Anuar Sucar Díaz

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 31
The Great Digital Transformation: Self-Regulating Market, Fictitious Commodities, and the Double Movement in Polanyi
Edgar Arteaga

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 60
Polyglobalization, Industry 4.0 and The Great Transformation: some ideas on the market economy in historical perspective
José Emmanuel Villa

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 87
The Importance of Freedom in a Complex Society: From Karl Polanyi to David Graeber
Norihisa Arai
Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 116
The city and the Great Transformation: A Polanyian Reading of the Commodification and Financialization of Urban Life
Alejandra Trejo
Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 149
Money, labor, and nature as fictitious commodities: financialization and multiple crises in Latin America since Polanyi
Elizabeth Concha

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 179
Feminisms and double movement in financialized capitalism: resistance against the commodification of care
María del Pilar Hernández

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 201
The Countermovement Captured: Climate Adaptation and Public Banking in Latin America
José Luis Reséndiz

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 234
Fictitious commodities and the reorganization of Amazonian space: the role of public credit in Brazil from a Polanyian-ecological perspective
Cristian David Romero

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 272
The great green transformation? The European Green Deal and agricultural protests from a Polanyian perspective
Agata Breczko

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 304
Polanyi and structural heterogeneity in Latin America: a condition of possibility for building real alternatives from economic diversity
Antonio Mendoza

Resumen/Abstract
Texto completo (pdf)

 


 

 

 

Creative Commons License  All content of this journal, except where identified, is under a Creative Commons License 

Editorial Board

Editorial Committee

Publishing Ethics

Open access Statement

Arbitration System

Submit a Proposal

 

logo UDUAL
Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe

 

 

Made in Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), all rights reserved 2004-2026.

OLA FINANCIERA, Vol. 19 No. 54, May - August 2026, is a quarterly publication, with international arbitration, edited by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México by Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad de la Investigación en Humanidades, Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, México, D.F., and Faculty of Economics, Ciudad Universitaria, Circuito Interior s/n, Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, México, D.F., www.olafinanciera.unam.mx, ola.financiera.unam@gmail.com Editor in charge: Dr. Wesley C. Marshall. Reservation of Rights to Exclusive Use: 04-2013-050912324700-203, ISSN electronic: 1870-1442. Responsible for the last update of this issue, Ing. Jesús Garrido López y Dr. Jesús Sosa Arista, Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad de la Investigación en Humanidades, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, México D.F. date of last modification, May 04, 2026.

The opinions expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the position of the editor of the publication.

Permission to reproduce all or part of the published texts is granted provided the source is cited in full including the web address. Otherwise, it requires prior written permission from the institution.