Gareth's current research focuses on the idea/ideology of economic growth, and the political economy of the environment. His books include five on Karl Polanyi (including an intellectual biography with Columbia University Press), several on the GDR and Eastern Europe, and edited volumes on migration, green growth, and revolutionary uprisings in the neoliberal era. His essays have appeared in academic journals plus in The Ecologist, Truthout, Open Democracy, Jacobin, Viewpoint, and Spectre.