Books like The Great Transformation

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi reads as analytical, critical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Age of Revolution

Eric Hobsbawm · 1962

Both explore industrialization & capitalism

72% genome match

Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats

Friedrich Engels · 1884

Both explore capitalism & state

68% genome match

Classical sociological theory

George Ritzer · 1992

Both explore capitalism

64% genome match

The transition from feudalism to capitalism

Paul Marlor Sweezy · 1954

Both explore social change & capitalism

66% genome match

Deutsche Ideologie

Karl Marx · 1938

Both explore capitalism

64% genome match

Filosofía de la praxis

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez · 1967

Both explore social change

64% genome match

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Twentieth-Century Classics)

John Maynard Keynes · 1919

Same nonfiction feel

60% genome match

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire · 1970

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Max Weber

Max Weber · 1963

Both explore capitalism

62% genome match

The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth

John Bellamy Foster · 2011

Both explore capitalism

61% genome match

Signs of change

William Morris · 1888

Both explore industrialization

62% genome match

The making of the English working class

E. P. Thompson · 1963

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match