Last year the Progressive Economics Forum of Canada initiated a John Kenneth Galbraith Prize, and Jamie Galbraith gave a magnificent lecture to inaugurate this prize in memory of his father. Mel Watkins and I were the first recipients of the prize awarded in Vancouver in June 2008. Here is a copy of my lecture: The [...]
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2008. “Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s”, Kari Polanyi Levitt, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Keynes and Polanyi
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2008. “Reclaiming Policy Space for Equitable Economic Development”. Presentation to the North South Institute. Ottawa, Canada. (January 2006) and Conference on Globalization and Development Problems VIII International Meeting of Economists. Havana, Cuba. Reclaiming Policy Space for Equitable Economic Development
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2004. “Development and Regionalism: Karl Polanyi’s Ideas and the Contemporary World System” Keynote address to Conference on Development and Regionalism: Karl Polanyi’s Ideas and the Contemporary World System. Budapest, Hungary. (November) Development and Regionalism
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Edited by Kari Levitt Reviews. Karl Polanyi believed that the greatest threat to freedom was a poorly administered economy. His search for economic and political institutions which reconciled society’s need for freedom to develop a moral sense, with the requirements of our complex technological civilization, led him to believe a possibility and necessity of an [...]
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Edited by Kari Levitt and Michael Witter Reviews. Colleagues and former students of George Beckford continue critical essays on the plantation paradigm which still has relevance in the Caribbean. The volume not only celebrates the work of Beckford but also proposes an agenda of research in order to reintroduce some of the central themes of [...]
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Selected and Introduced by Kari Levitt Quotes. “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 [...]
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Edited by Kari Levitt and Kenneth McRobbie Reviews. Karl Polanyi’s belief that the greatest threat to freedom was a poorly administered economy led him to an economics that was more existential and human-centered. Part I of this book develops Polanyi’s thinking for its significance today through a selection of papers on re-reading his major work [...]
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Silent Surrender The Multinational Corporation in Canada Reviews. First published in 1970, Silent Surrender has educated two generations of Canadians about political economy and corporate rule. Professor Kari Levitt details the historical background of foreign investments in Canada, their acceleration since World War II, and the nature of intrusions by multinational corporations into a sovereign [...]
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Independent Thought and Caribbean Community Kari Levitt Reviews. For over 20 years, the developing world has been adjusting to the agendas of the IMF 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. [...]
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