Indispensable for understanding and applying Polanyian thought. Dale's book is a model of critical scholarship, placing Polanyi in historical context and skillfully tracing the development of his theory. --Wolfgang Streeck, Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, author of Buying Time and How Will Capitalism End?

A great asset for the left in the critique of capitalist market economy. --Tamás Krausz, author of Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography (Monthly Review Press, 2015)

Revitalises, brings back, and inverts Polanyi s thought. --Alicia Girón, Professor and Researcher of the Economic Research Institute (IIEc) at the National University of Mexico

Gareth Dale is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, England. His previous books include The East German Revolution of 1989 (MUP, 2007) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010).