North American Period (1947-1964)
Key : “Name” or „Name”: article; Name: book; (Name): draft article; (Name): draft book; 'Name': Speech or Conference; <Name>: Plan; To {Personal Name}: letter
(17 years)
Columbia Project #190 - The Origins of Economic Institutions (1947-1953)
1947
| World Events | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIA is created. Creation of Israel is discussed in ONU. | __.01. | “On Belief on Economic Determinism” | |
| __.01. | “Whither Civilization?” | ||
| P. is at New York. | __.02. | “Our obsolete mentality” | |
| 11.02. | To Ilona | ||
| 20.03. | To Ilona | ||
| He reads Jewish History and Old Testament | 15.06. | To Irene and Donald Grant | |
| 09.08. | To Ilona | ||
| 'General Economic History' | |||
| 17.09. | To Ilona | ||
| 19.09. | To Ilona | ||
| 20.09. | To Ilona | ||
| 23.09. | To Ilona | ||
| 24.09. | To Ilona | ||
| “Marxist Economic Thought” | |||
| General Economy History | |||
| (Memorandum on Industry) | |||
| (In the Hands of the Vanquished) | |||
| (Crisis of 1920’s) ↑ |
1948
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
|---|---|---|
| 27.01. | From Ilona Duczyńska | |
| 27.08. | From Michael Polanyi | |
| 09.09. | From Felix Schafer | |
| Winter | 'From Max Weber's General Economic History' | |
| Winter | 'The Two Meanings of “Economic”' | |
| < Plan and Market in Ancient Society > ↑ |
1949
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
|---|---|---|
| 25.02. | 'Economic History and the Problem of Freedom' | |
| 27.08. | From Michael Polanyi | |
| Semi-annual sabbatic in London, he takes lesson of WEA and goes to British Museum[1]. | < Redistribution and Exchange > | |
| < Armies and Markets in Ancient Greece: Booty Sale and Provisioning > ↑ |
1950
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| (Economics and Freedom to Shape Our Social Destiny) | ||
| (Plans for work in Russia) | ||
| (The Contribution of Institutional Analysis to the Social Sciences) | ||
| (Primitive feudalism and the feudalism decay) | ||
| 27.10. | To Oszkár Jászi | |
| 07.11. | To Oszkár Jászi | |
| 31.12. | < The Livelihood of Man > ↑ |
1951
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 'Meeting Your Junior Self' | ||
| 'Child Psychology' | ||
| 'Public Opinion and Statemanship' ↑ |
1952
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 10.01. | To Abraham Rotstein | |
| 10.01. | To Arthur ? | |
| 16.01. | To James W. Angell | |
| 22.01. | From Walter C. Neale | |
| 29.01. | To Abraham Rotstein | |
| 11.02. | From Walter C. Neale ↑ |
1953
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Second meeting | 18.11. | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Second Meeting |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or Is a free society? | ||
| (Die zwei Bedeutungen von ‘wirtschaftlich’) | ||
| xx.11. | (Food Distribution and Equivalencies) | |
| < Semantics of General Economic History > ↑ |
Council for Research in the Social Sciences (1954-1958)
1954
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| (1954) Polanyi plans journals he wants to publish: “Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences”, “Law Aspects of Current Affairs” or Comparative Studies in Society and History”.[2] | 24.02. | < Outline for a revision of The Great transformation (1954) > |
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Sixth meeting | 21.04. | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Sixth Meeting |
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Ninth meeting | 09.12. | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Ninth Meeting |
| (Greece) ↑ |
1955
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| P. is working on Trade and Market | 'Freedom and Technology' | |
| 17.02 | To Robert Merton[3] | |
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Tenth meeting | 10.03. | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Tenth Meeting |
| 19.07 | To Michael | |
| 21.07 | To Conrad Arensberg | |
| 26.07 | To David Landes | |
| 15.11 | To Robert Merton[4] ↑ |
1956
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 25.02. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes I |
| xx.03 | (Notes on the Place Occupied by Economies in Societies) | |
| Ford Foundation writes to Columbia U. to advise that a Grant of $36,000 for the CRSS project [31/20], 21] | 06.04. | |
| 10.04. | To Abraham Rotstein | |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 05.05. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes II |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 14.07. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes III |
| Two Days with Abraham Rotstein | 25.08. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes IV |
| (Leplezett küluralom és szocialista közgazdaság) [Concealed Foreign Rule and Socialist Economics] ↑ |
1957
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| Trade and Market in the Early Empires. Economies in History and Theory (w/ ARENSBERG Conrad & PEARSON Harry (eds.): “Marketless Trading in Hammurabi’s Time“ [ch. II], “Aristotle Discovers the Economy“ [ch. V], “The Place of Economies in Societies“ [ch. XII], “The Economy as Instituted Process“ [ch. XIII] | ||
| “The Semantics of Money-Uses“ | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 06.04. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes IX |
| 24.04. | “The Machine and the Discovery of the Society“ | |
| 24.04. | (Freedom in a complex society) | |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 25.05. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XI |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 25.06. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XII |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 20.07. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XIII |
| “Terry is working on an article that P. wrote in 1945” [W. Notes XIV][5] | __.08. | |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 24.08. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XIV |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 14.09. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XV |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 12.10. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XVII |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 02.11. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XVIII |
| P. reads Lukacs's The Young Hegel (1948). | 05.12. | To Robert McIver |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 21.12. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XIX |
| “P. will have something published soon on sociology (…) [with the help of 'Terry' Hopkins]. This is on the question of institutional change and how strain causes change.” [W. Notes XIX] | __.12. | (Psychology and Ideology in Institutional Change - Actual and Postulated Motives) |
| (A Hungarian Lesson) | ||
| To Felix Schafer | ||
| < Project #190 - The Origins of Economic Institutions > ↑ |
1958
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 05.01. | Michael | |
| P. reads Hegel (Phenomenology) and Lukacs's The Young Hegel.[6] | 30.01. | To Conrad Arensberg |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 15.02. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XX |
| P. reads Menger's Grundsätze [1923] | 19.02. | To Paul Medow |
| The Rockefeller Foundation refuses to support the continuation of CRSS Project | 26.02. | From Norman S. Buchanan |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 29.03. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXI |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 27.04. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXII |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 04.05. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXII |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 30.06. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXIII |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 10.08. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXIII |
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 23.08. | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXIV |
| 26.09. | To Abraham Rotstein | |
| 22.11. | 'Remarks on Social Cost' | |
| (For a New West) | ||
| (Egy ‘antimarxista’ naplójából) [From the Diary of an Antimarxist] | ||
| (A Galilei Kör ötven év távlatából) [The Galilei Circle fifty Years on] | ||
| (Carl Menger’s two meanings of ‘economic’) ↑ |
Continuig Group of the Interdisciplinary Project (1959-1964)
1959
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 15.01. | (Gailbraith's Farewell to Poverty) | |
| 03.02. | To George Dalton | |
| 15.02. | (Aristotle and Gailbraith on Affluence) | |
| 27.02. | (Aristotle and Gailbraith on Affluence) (2d ed.) | |
| 13.03. | (Aristotle on an affluent society) | |
| (Ötven év) [Fifty Years] | ||
| 13.08. | (An Institutional Approach to Early Non-Market Economies) | |
| Karl and Ilona spend three weeks in Europe | Autumn | (Research into the substantive economy) |
| (Early Economies) ↑ |
1960
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 24.04. | To György Heltai | |
| 21.05. | To György Heltai | |
| (The Role of Strain in Institutional Change) | ||
| (The Good Life in an Industrial Society) | ||
| (Market Elements and Economic Planning in Antiquity) | ||
| (Local Food Markets and Market Trade in the Old World) | ||
| “On the Comparative Treatment of Economic Institutions in Antiquity with Illustrations from Athens, Mycenae, and Alakah“ | ||
| (Széljegyzetek a szocialista világfordulóhoz) [Announcements for the Socialist World Revolution] | ||
| xx.11-12. | “A Galilei Kör hagyatéka” [The legacy of the Galilean Circle] ↑ |
1961
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 07.02. | < Outline for a revision of The Great transformation (1961) > | |
| 30.03. | To Istvan Meszaros | |
| 24.04. | To the Editors of Új Látóhatár | |
| To Istvan Meszaros | ||
| xx.05. | (The Hungarian Populists) | |
| 28.05. | To George Dalton | |
| 23.09. | (Notes on the Draft Program of the CPSU) ↑ |
1962
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| xx.03. | “R. F. G. Sweet Review article“ | |
| “Il pensiero sovietica in transizione“ | ||
| 02.12. | “Biographical notes” to Kari Polanyi-Levitt ↑ |
1963
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| __.01-02. | (Functions of Money in the Western Slave Trade) | |
| xx.01 | To Kari Polanyi-Levitt | |
| xx.03. | (Ports of Trade in Early Societies) | |
| 13.05. | (Bücher, Karl (1847-1931)) | |
| “Reflection on the article titled “Text of Pope John’s Encyclical ‘Pacem in Terris’, Calling for a World Community“ | ||
| 27.05. | To György Lukács | |
| K. P. and I. Duczyńska go to Hungary | 09.10. | Gazdágszociológia az egyesült államokban [Economics Sociology in the United States] |
| P. gives an interview to different persons in Budapest | 15.10. | Ankét |
| xx.12. | “Hazánk Kötelessege“ [Our Homeland's Duty] | |
| xx.xx | (Psychology and Ideology in Institutional Change - Actual and Postulated Motives) ↑ |
1964
| Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|
| 25.01. | To György Lukács | |
| “Sortings and ‘Ounce Trade’ in the West African Slave Trade“ | ||
| Karl Polanyi dies at 78. | ↑ |