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:
Category Archives: Articles
Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s
2008. “Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s”, Kari Polanyi Levitt, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Reclaiming Policy Space for Equitable Economic Development
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.
Development and Regionalism
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)