Gareth Dale reflects on how the lessons from history of the semi-periphery can be used for degrowth of tomorrow. Drawing from his understanding of the work of Karl Polanyi, Gareth will try to sketch Polanyi’s answers for the currently open degrowth challenges and issues raised at the conference.

This media entry was a contribution to the special session „Polanyi, historical lessons, future challenges, semiperiphery“ at the 5th International Degrowth Conference in Budapest in 2016.