The seventh chapter offers theoretical reflections and insights drawn from the empirical reconstructions of the eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank. (1) The eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank exhibit characteristics of Polanyi’s concept of the double movement. This concept describes the interplay between the principles of economic liberalisation (favouring laissez-faire policies and market forces) and social protection (advocating for government intervention and social protection). The eco-social policy discourses of both organisations reflect a tension between these opposing forces, which reproduces the capitalist mode of production in global governance. (2) The analysis suggests that both the OECD and the World Bank move towards a policy-agenda of green embedded liberalism. This policy perspective aims to reform liberal globalism (which is also still advocated by both organisations) by promoting an entrepreneurial state and extensive government intervention with green conditionality while maintaining elements of the capitalist mode of production. The organisations fall short of advocating for a more radical social-ecological transformation that would require a departure from growth-dependent policies. (3) Furthermore, the eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank are classified as part of a “new critical orthodoxy” (Brand et al., 2020). This concept refers to policy approaches that acknowledge the existence of environmental and social crises but propose solutions that rely on existing institutions and capitalist dynamics that are responsible for the crises in the first place. (4) The analysis indicates a potential third-order paradigmatic shift or conflict between third-order paradigms within the eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank, falling short of a fourth-order paradigm change of system change logics.