What the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom?

Adam David Morton | January 25, 2026

More than eighty years on, what the heck’s going on with Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and how can we make sense of the text today?

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The Political Economy of a Stateless Nation: When Polanyi Meets Gramsci at the Kurdish Mountains

Omer Tekdemir | April 5, 2022

These days we are witnessing a growing interest in Karl Polanyi’s framework to explain the organic crisis of neoliberalism, including the populist reaction; while Antonio Gramsci has always been popular within a wide range of movement studies from different disciplines. My recently published [...]

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Rethinking Global Labour: A Debate

Ronaldo Munck | August 6, 2020

I would like to thank Andreas Bieler for his interesting and engaged review of my recent book Rethinking Global Labour, optimistically titled After Neoliberalism and Adam David Morton for hosting it on his excellent cutting-edge site. After explaining what the book is about Bieler makes two [...]

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Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy

Adam David Morton | October 31, 2018

A new special issue of the journal Globalizations has just been published and brings together articles on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held [...]

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The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

Martijn Konings | May 17, 2017

The folks at the critical theory podcast Always Already focused on Martijn Konings’ most recent book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed in their January show. You can stream the discussion here or download the episode at the link [...]

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Karl Polanyi “‘The Viennese should emigrate to Australia!'”

Gareth Dale | November 5, 2015

‘“The Viennese should emigrate to Australia!”’ [A bécsiek vándoroljanak ki Ausztráliába!], Bécsi Magyar Újság, 20 September 1922 (translated by Adam Fabry).

Authored by Karl Polanyi, this piece has been offered to Progress in Political Economy by Gareth Dale and Adam Fabry to deliver an [...]

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Anti-Polanyi

Martijn Konings | July 17, 2015

This presentation was delivered as part of an event launching my latest book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism at Gleebooks in Sydney (23 June 2015). It was followed by an appraisal by Dr Fiona Allon that is also published on Progress in Political Economy and available HERE.

It is now [...]

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Book Launch: The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

Martijn Konings | June 19, 2015

It is now sometimes hard to remember, but there was a period after the start of the financial crisis when progressive commentary was pervaded by intense excitement about the end of neoliberalism and a return of the Keynesian state. Such thinking is often associated with Karl Polanyi’s [...]

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