What to Read After The Great Transformation
Readers who loved The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Great Transformation is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Great Transformation
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Capitalism, socialism and democracy
The Age of Capital
Globalization and its discontents
The theory of the leisure class
The general theory of employment, interest and money
Bad Samaritans
The Modern World-System I
Long Twentieth Century
Seeing Like a State
The affluent society
The power elite
The worldly philosophers
World-Systems Analysis
Labor and monopoly capital
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Debunking Economics
The passions and the interests
Global Minotaur
Kicking away the ladder
The philosophy of money
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
Man, the state, and war
Nation and Nationalism