The Great Financialization

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 [...]

Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s

2008. “Keynes and Polanyi: the 1920s and the 1990s”, Kari Polanyi Levitt, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Keynes and Polanyi

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. Reclaiming Policy Space for Equitable Economic Development

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) Development and Regionalism