Kari Polanyi Levitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4866487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kari Polanyi Levitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kari Polanyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Levitt |
| SIGNATURE | LEVITT K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Polanyi Moment, Decommodification of Labor and the Struggle for Full Employment: How the Covid-19 Crisis has Opened the Debate Over the Nature of the Fictitious Labor Market in Both the Industrial…
The purpose of this article is first to discuss how the so-called fictitious labor market has been analyzed historically, by studying the classical, Marxian, and Lewis dual sectors and then by pointing to the current distinction between formal and informal sectors with the consequences of the phenomenon of informality on measured unemployment. We consider the recent 21st Century experience during the Great Financial Crisis and the current COVID-1…
Mel Watkins, 1932–2020
Editor’s note: Mel Watkins, one of Canada’s foremost political economists, activists and professor emeritus in economics and political science at the University of Toronto, died in April 2020. Watk
Kari Polanyi Levitt on Karl Polanyi and the economy as a social construct: Address to the ASE World Congress, Brock University, June 2015
I am very happy to be addressing the Association for Social Economics at Brock University, and I really wish all the very best for the future of your association. I was interested to discover that
From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays
On Transformations: Past, Present, and Future? * 2. Hayek from Vienna to Chicago: Architect of the Neoliberal Creed * 3. The Roots of Polanyi's Socialist Vision * 4. Back to the Future: The World Economic Crisis of the 1930s * 5. Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s * 6. Leading Concepts in the Work of Karl Polanyi and their Contemporary Relevance * 7. Culture and economy * 8. Social dividend as a citizen right * PART 2: The Global South f…
Reclaiming development: Independent thought and Caribbean community
For over 20 years, the developing world has been adjusting to the agendas of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In the 1990s, Structural Adjustment Programmes were repackaged and marketed as the coming of the golden age of globalisation, promising benefits to countries that adopt neo-liberal policies. Whether by convention or apparent absence of viable alternatives, Caribbean governments have been quick to implement policies of d…
Keynes and Polanyi: The 1920s and the 1990s
Globalization, Development, and Economics: Reflections on the History of Development Thought
(2005). Globalization, Development, and Economics: Reflections on the History of Development Thought. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 517-526
Independent Thought and Caribbean Community
The article presents a brief history of caricom, assessing its performance and relevance in the context of the divergent experiences of member countries in the thirty years since its inception and of the changes to the region's role in the world economy. It concludes that, although caricom's achievements over this period have been significant—not least in the formulation of common positions in the negotiation of international trade agreements—the…
Silent Surrender Preface to the Carleton Library Series Edition (2001)
Development in Question: What Have we Learned about Development
The Right to Development: Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture
Previous speakers in this series addressed the celebrated contribution of Sir Arthur Lewis to intellectual and public life in the Caribbean: as scholar, teacher, administrator, and role model to a remarkably creative generation of West Indian economists. In his inaugural address, Rex Nettleford, reminded us that this eminent economist and Nobel Laureate was, in the final analysis, a great educator and guru to his people both in the Caribbean and …
Debt, Adjustment, and Development: Looking to the 1990s
The George Beckford Papers
George Beckford’s work is characterized by a remarkable consistency of purpose and vision. This collection presents the unfolding of George Beckford’s work from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of "man space", to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation. His purpose was to reveal the legacy of dispossession originating in the slave pla…
Toward Alternatives: Re-reading the Great Transformation
This is the welcoming address to the participants of the Fifth Annual Conference of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, held in Vienna in November 1994 and organized jointly with the Socio-Economic Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The background and context of the conference are woven into the text of the welcoming address. The title is added with the agreement of professor Levitt. It is anticipated that a selection…
Table ronde sur la recherche caraïbéenne au Québec
From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays
On Transformations: Past, Present, and Future? * 2. Hayek from Vienna to Chicago: Architect of the Neoliberal Creed * 3. The Roots of Polanyi's Socialist Vision * 4. Back to the Future: The World Economic Crisis of the 1930s * 5. Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s * 6. Leading Concepts in the Work of Karl Polanyi and their Contemporary Relevance * 7. Culture and economy * 8. Social dividend as a citizen right * PART 2: The Global South f…
Keynes and Polanyi: The 1920s and the 1990s
Independent Thought and Caribbean Community
The article presents a brief history of caricom, assessing its performance and relevance in the context of the divergent experiences of member countries in the thirty years since its inception and of the changes to the region's role in the world economy. It concludes that, although caricom's achievements over this period have been significant—not least in the formulation of common positions in the negotiation of international trade agreements—the…
Table ronde sur la recherche caraïbéenne au Québec
Toward Alternatives: Re-reading the Great Transformation
This is the welcoming address to the participants of the Fifth Annual Conference of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, held in Vienna in November 1994 and organized jointly with the Socio-Economic Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The background and context of the conference are woven into the text of the welcoming address. The title is added with the agreement of professor Levitt. It is anticipated that a selection…
The George Beckford Papers
George Beckford’s work is characterized by a remarkable consistency of purpose and vision. This collection presents the unfolding of George Beckford’s work from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of "man space", to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation. His purpose was to reveal the legacy of dispossession originating in the slave pla…
Silent Surrender Preface to the Carleton Library Series Edition (2001)
Development in Question: What Have we Learned about Development
The Right to Development: Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture
Previous speakers in this series addressed the celebrated contribution of Sir Arthur Lewis to intellectual and public life in the Caribbean: as scholar, teacher, administrator, and role model to a remarkably creative generation of West Indian economists. In his inaugural address, Rex Nettleford, reminded us that this eminent economist and Nobel Laureate was, in the final analysis, a great educator and guru to his people both in the Caribbean and …
Debt, Adjustment, and Development: Looking to the 1990s
Independent Thought and Caribbean Community
The article presents a brief history of caricom, assessing its performance and relevance in the context of the divergent experiences of member countries in the thirty years since its inception and of the changes to the region's role in the world economy. It concludes that, although caricom's achievements over this period have been significant—not least in the formulation of common positions in the negotiation of international trade agreements—the…
Reclaiming development: Independent thought and Caribbean community
For over 20 years, the developing world has been adjusting to the agendas of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In the 1990s, Structural Adjustment Programmes were repackaged and marketed as the coming of the golden age of globalisation, promising benefits to countries that adopt neo-liberal policies. Whether by convention or apparent absence of viable alternatives, Caribbean governments have been quick to implement policies of d…
Keynes and Polanyi: The 1920s and the 1990s
Globalization, Development, and Economics: Reflections on the History of Development Thought
(2005). Globalization, Development, and Economics: Reflections on the History of Development Thought. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 517-526
From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays
On Transformations: Past, Present, and Future? * 2. Hayek from Vienna to Chicago: Architect of the Neoliberal Creed * 3. The Roots of Polanyi's Socialist Vision * 4. Back to the Future: The World Economic Crisis of the 1930s * 5. Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s * 6. Leading Concepts in the Work of Karl Polanyi and their Contemporary Relevance * 7. Culture and economy * 8. Social dividend as a citizen right * PART 2: The Global South f…
Kari Polanyi Levitt on Karl Polanyi and the economy as a social construct: Address to the ASE World Congress, Brock University, June 2015
I am very happy to be addressing the Association for Social Economics at Brock University, and I really wish all the very best for the future of your association. I was interested to discover that
Mel Watkins, 1932–2020
Editor’s note: Mel Watkins, one of Canada’s foremost political economists, activists and professor emeritus in economics and political science at the University of Toronto, died in April 2020. Watk
The Polanyi Moment, Decommodification of Labor and the Struggle for Full Employment: How the Covid-19 Crisis has Opened the Debate Over the Nature of the Fictitious Labor Market in Both the Industrial…
The purpose of this article is first to discuss how the so-called fictitious labor market has been analyzed historically, by studying the classical, Marxian, and Lewis dual sectors and then by pointing to the current distinction between formal and informal sectors with the consequences of the phenomenon of informality on measured unemployment. We consider the recent 21st Century experience during the Great Financial Crisis and the current COVID-1…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works)