波蘭尼關注不同社會框架內經濟關係運作的整體觀點的發展,這導致他進行詳細的歷史和人類學研究。他以市場經濟作為一種特殊的社會組織形式為主題寫作多部專著。《鉅變:當代政治、經濟的起源》集中討論19世紀市場經濟的發展,波蘭尼表示這種經濟形式造成社會分裂,以至於沒有長遠未來。他與其他人合著的《Trade and Markets in the Early Empires》則集中討論非市場社會形式;波蘭尼為他所認為的非市場經濟制定概念架構。他也在《Dahomey and the Slave Trade》一書中分析奴隸輸出國的經濟結構。[1]
"Universal Capitalism or Regional Planning?," The London Quarterly of World Affairs, vol. 10 (3) (1945).
Trade and Markets in the Early Empires (1957, edited and with contributions by others)
Dahomey and the Slave Trade (1966)
George Dalton (ed), Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economics: Essays of Karl Polanyi (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1968); collected essays and selections from his work.
Harry W. Pearson (ed.), The Livelihood of Man (Academic Press, 1977).
Karl Polanyi, For a New West: Essays, 1919–1958 (Polity Press, 2014). ISBN9780745684444
McRobbie, Kenneth (编), Humanity, Society and Commitment: On Karl Polanyi, Black Rose Books Ltd., 1994, ISBN 1-895431-84-0
McRobbie, Kenneth; Polanyi-Levitt, Kari (编), Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of The Great Transformation, Black Rose Books Ltd., 2000, ISBN 1-55164-142-9
Mendell, Marguerite; Salée, Daniel, The Legacy of Karl Polanyi: Market, State, and Society at the End of the Twentieth Century, St. Martins Press, 1991, ISBN 0-312-04783-5
Polanyi-Levitt, Kari (编), The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi: A Celebration, Black Rose Books Ltd., 1990, ISBN 0-921689-80-2
Stanfield, J. Ron, The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi: Lives and Livelihood, Macmillan, 1986, ISBN 0-333-39629-4
Dale, Gareth, Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market, Polity, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7456-4072-3