As a historian, what’s your take on Polyani’s ‘great transformation’ and ‘double movement’? I’m drawing on the historical sociological school for my Master’s thesis on welfare provision and was wondering if you had any other suggestions to read.

I’m a huge fan of Polayni, his Great Transformation remains one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I would recommend reading Marc Blyth’s Great Transformations for a more recent interpretation of Polayni that seeks to explain why the drive for social protection that Polayni described/predicted went into reverse in the 1970s and 1980s.