Gareth Dale is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, England. He is the author of First the Transition, then the Crash (Pluto, 2011), Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Reconstructing Sociology2. The Marxist Orbit: Polanyi’s Double Movement3. Capital versus the Demos4. Democratic Tyranny: The Soviet Union5. Reconstructing The Great Transformation6. Regionalism and the European Union7. Intellectuals and the Red Scare8. Redistribution and Market Exchange in Mesopotamia9. Markets in Ancient Greece: The Challenge of the New Institutionalism (with Matthijs Krul)NotesIndex

'Indispensable for understanding and applying Polanyian thought. Dale's book is a model of critical scholarship, placing Polanyi in historical context and skillfully tracing thedevelopment of his theory'

Gareth Dale is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, England. He is the author of First the Transition, then the Crash (Pluto, 2011), Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Reconstructing Sociology2. The Marxist Orbit: Polanyi’s Double Movement3. Capital versus the Demos4. Democratic Tyranny: The Soviet Union5. Reconstructing The Great Transformation6. Regionalism and the European Union7. Intellectuals and the Red Scare8. Redistribution and Market Exchange in Mesopotamia9. Markets in Ancient Greece: The Challenge of the New Institutionalism (with Matthijs Krul)NotesIndex

'Indispensable for understanding and applying Polanyian thought. Dale's book is a model of critical scholarship, placing Polanyi in historical context and skillfully tracing thedevelopment of his theory'

Gareth Dale is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, England. He is the author of First the Transition, then the Crash (Pluto, 2011), Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Reconstructing Sociology2. The Marxist Orbit: Polanyi’s Double Movement3. Capital versus the Demos4. Democratic Tyranny: The Soviet Union5. Reconstructing The Great Transformation6. Regionalism and the European Union7. Intellectuals and the Red Scare8. Redistribution and Market Exchange in Mesopotamia9. Markets in Ancient Greece: The Challenge of the New Institutionalism (with Matthijs Krul)NotesIndex

'Indispensable for understanding and applying Polanyian thought. Dale's book is a model of critical scholarship, placing Polanyi in historical context and skillfully tracing thedevelopment of his theory'