Kari Polanyi Levitt
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Citizenship: Canadian
Permanent Residence: Montreal
Education:
Bedales School England (1936-1941)
London School of Economics (1941-1943 and 1945-1947)
First Class Honours BSC (Economics), Special Subject Statistics. Winner: Farr Medal
University of Toronto (1957-1959)
MA Economics
All PhD requirements except thesis (1959-1961)
Employment:
McGill University, Department of Economics (1961-1992)
Present status Emeritus Professor
University of the West Indies, Visiting Professorships
Institute of International Relations, St. Augustine (1974-1975)
Department of Economics, Mona (1978-1980)
Consortium School of Graduate Studies, Mona (1989-1995)
Beckford Chair, Department of Economics, Mona (1995-1997)
Other Professional Work:
Statistics Canada and Atlantic Development Board (1965-1975)
Director Input Output Studies of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada
Government of Trinidad and Tobago (1969-1973)
Construction of a multi-sectoral system of national economic accounts
United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America (1976)
Negotiating with Transnational Corporations in the Bauxite Industry
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (1976)
Visiting Fellow
Parliamentary Sub Committee on Foreign Affairs (1983)
House of Commons, Ottawa
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (1984-1986)
Study of the State of Development Studies in Canadian universities
World Bank (1986)
Review of National Accounts of Haiti
Institutional Affiliations and Honours
Founding member:
Center of Developing Areas Studies, McGill University 1963
Canadian Association for the Study of International Development, (CASID) 1984 and Annual Kari Polanyi Levitt Prize for best graduate student essay
Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy (Honorary President), Concordia University
Association of Caribbean Economists in 1987
Honours:
George Beckford Award, Association of Caribbean Economists, 1997
Honorary Fellow of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004
John Kenneth Galbraith Prize, Progressive Economics Forum, 2008
Honorary Doctorate, University of the West Indies, 2008
Order of Canada, 2014
Publications:
Books
2013 From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: on Karl Polanyi and other Essays, Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Canada.
2009 (With Lloyd Best) Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: A Historical And Institutional Approach to Caribbean Economic Development. University of the West Indies Press. Jamaica, 257pp.
2008 (With Lloyd Best) Teoría de la Economía de Plantación. Casa de las Americas. Havana, 219pp
2005 Reclaiming Development: Independent Thought and Caribbean Community. Ian Randle Publishers. Kingston and Miami, 411pp
2001 Silent Surrender, The Multinational Corporation in Canada, re-issued with a new introduction, post script, and an index. McGill- Queen’s University Press. Montréal, 193pp
2000 The George Beckford Papers (Ed) University of the West Indies Press. Jamaica, 468pp
2000 (With Kenneth McRobbie, Eds) Karl Polanyi in Vienna. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 344 pp. Second edition with additional material published in 2005.
1996 (With Michael Witter Eds.) Critical Thought in Caribbean Political Economy: The Legacy of George Beckford. Ian Randle, Jamaica.
1991 The Origins and Consequences of Jamaica’s Debt Crisis 1970-1990. (revised) Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences, UWI, Jamaica. 67 pp.
1990. (Ed.) The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi . Black Rose Books, Montreal. 265pp.
1972 La capitulation tranquille, La Maison Réédition –Québec, Montreal. 220pp
1970 Silent Surrender: the Multinational Corporation in Canada, The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto, 1970.185pp.
1967 (With Alister McIntyre). Canada-West Indies Economic Relations. Canada Trade Committee, Private Planning Association and Centre for Developing Areas Studies, McGill University, Montreal. 174 pp.
1963 (With B.S. Keirstead) Inter-Territorial Freight Rates and the Federal Shipping Service. Institute of Social and Economic Research, UWI Jamaica, 91pp.
1961 (With John J. Deutsch, Burton S. Keirstead, and Robert M. Will Eds). The Canadian Economy: Selected Readings, The Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto. 549pp.