Pendekatan Polanyi terhadap ekonomi kuno telah diterapkan dalam sejumlah kasus seperti Amerika pra-Columbus dan Mesopotamia kuno, namun manfaatnya bagi studi masyarakat kuno masih dipertanyakan.[2]The Great Transformation Polanyi menjadi acuan bagi sosiologi historis. Teori-teorinya menjadi dasar gerakan demokrasi ekonomi. Putrinya, Kari Polanyi Levitt adalah dosen ekonomi emeritus di Universitas McGill, Montreal.
McRobbie, Kenneth, ed. (1994), Humanity, Society and Commitment: On Karl Polanyi, Black Rose Books Ltd., ISBN1-895431-84-0
McRobbie, Kenneth; Polanyi-Levitt, Kari, ed. (2000), Karl Polanyi in Vienna: The Contemporary Significance of The Great Transformation, Black Rose Books Ltd., ISBN1-55164-142-9
Mendell, Marguerite; Salée, Daniel (1991), The Legacy of Karl Polanyi: Market, State, and Society at the End of the Twentieth Century, St. Martins Press, ISBN0-312-04783-5
Polanyi-Levitt, Kari, ed. (1990), The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi: A Celebration, Black Rose Books Ltd., ISBN0-921689-80-2
Stanfield, J. Ron (1986), The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi: Lives and Livelihood, Macmillan, ISBN0-333-39629-4
Dale, Gareth (2010), Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market, Polity, ISBN978-0-7456-4072-3
The free market is an impossible utopia (2014-07-18), The Washington Post. A conversation with Fred Block and Margaret Somers on their book, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique (Harvard University Press, 2014). The book argues that the ideas of Karl Polanyi are crucial to help understand economic recessions and their aftermath.