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“... of social history. R.H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, published in 1926, was, Tim Rogan writes, by some estimates ‘the most widely read work of history in the interwar period’. Charting the social and economic impact of the Protestant Reformation in 16th-century Europe, Tawney’s book also served as a warning against the moral ...”

“... But there is no mention of Polanyi in Thompson’s masterpiece, and it is noticeable that even Tim Rogan – who in his book The Moral Economists (2017) makes a case for substantial commonalities in the work of Tawney, Polanyi and Thompson – cites no evidence of Thompson acknowledging or drawing on Polanyi.*More generally, Polanyi’s stock seems to ...”