North American Period (1947-1964)
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Columbia Project #190 - The Origins of Economic Institutions (1947-1953)
1947
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Mannheim dies | 01.09 | |||
| Talcott Parsons publishes the first instalment of Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (already translated into English during the 1930s), under the title The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. | 01.__ | “On Belief on Economic Determinism” | ||
| 01.__ | “Whither Civilization?” | |||
| P. is at New York. | 02.__ | “Our Obsolete Market Mentality” | ||
| 02.11 | To Ilona | |||
| Third Cybernetics Conference at NY, on Child psychology | 03.13-14 | |||
| 03.20 | To Ilona | |||
| He reads Jewish History and Old Testament | 06.15 | To Irene and Donald Grant | ||
| Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act that creates the CIA. | 07.26 | |||
| 08.09 | To Ilona | |||
| 'General Economic History' | ||||
| 09.17 | To Ilona | |||
| 09.19 | To Ilona | |||
| 09.20 | To Ilona | |||
| 09.23 | To Ilona | |||
| 09.24 | To Ilona | |||
| Fourth Cybernetics Conference (NY) on the field perspective on psychology and analog vs. digital approaches to psychological models | 10.23-25 | |||
| Resolution 181 (II) of UN creates Israel | 11.29 | |||
| “Marxist Economic Thought” | ||||
| General Economy History | ||||
| (Memorandum on Industry) | ||||
| (In the Hands of the Vanquished) | ||||
| (Crisis of 1920’s) | ||||
| 'Lesson of the Westminster Revolt' | ||||
| 1947•1953 | 'The Tool Box of institutional Analysis' | |||
| 1947•1953 | 'Five Lectures on the Present Age of Transformation' ↑ |
1948
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifth Cybernetics Conference (NY) on Formation of "I" in language and formal modeling applied to chicken pecking order formation | 03.18-19 | |||
| 11.30 | < Plan and Market in Ancient Society > | |||
| Winter | 'From Max Weber's General Economic History' | |||
| Winter | 'The Two Meanings of “Economic”' ↑ |
1949
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Morris Sievers, Has Market Capitalism collapsed ? A Critique of Karl Polanyi New Economics, New York, Columbia University, 368 p. / Peter Drucker, The New Society / Karl Jaspers, Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte | 02.25 | 'Economic History and the Problem of Freedom' | ||
| Sixth Cybernetics Conference, at NYC, on neurons, memory and the collaboration between physics and psychology | 03.24-25 | |||
| 08.27 | 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
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | 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) | ||||
| 10.27 | To Oszkár Jászi | |||
| 11.07 | To Oszkár Jászi | |||
| 12.31 | < The Livelihood of Man > ↑ |
1951
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.06 | 'Meeting Your Junior Self' | |||
| 11.06 | 'Child Psychology' | |||
| 'Public Opinion and Statemanship' | ||||
| 'Consequence of the Industrial Revolution' ↑ |
1952
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. 10 | To Abraham Rotstein | |||
| 01.10 | To Arthur ? | |||
| 01.16 | To James W. Angell | |||
| 01.22 | From Walter C. Neale | |||
| 01.29 | To Abraham Rotstein | |||
| 02.11 | From Walter C. Neale | |||
| 07•08 | 'Karl Marx (1859)'↑ |
1953
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimitrije Mitrinović's death | 08.23 | |||
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Second meeting | 11.18 | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Second Meeting | ||
| P. must be writing “Hamlet”. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or Is a free society? | |||
| (Die zwei Bedeutungen von ‘wirtschaftlich’) | ||||
| 11.xx | (Food Distribution and Equivalencies) | |||
| < Semantics of General Economic History > | ||||
| < Equivalencies in the Early Empires and the Slow Development of Money Institutions > | ||||
| (The Livelihood of Man) ↑ |
Council for Research in the Social Sciences (1954-1958)
1954
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Yale Review receives “Hamlet”, given by Peter Drucker, and accepts to publish it. | 01.11 | |||
| (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] | 02.24 | < Outline for a revision of The Great transformation (1954) > | ||
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Sixth meeting | 04.21 | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Sixth Meeting | ||
| Spring | Hamlet | |||
| “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process”, Ninth meeting | 12.09 | “The Institutionalization of the Economic Process” - Minutes of Ninth Meeting | ||
| (Greece) ↑ |
1955
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. is working on Trade and Market | 'Freedom and Technology' | |||
| 17.02 | To Robert Merton[3] | |||
| xx.03. | (Hittite Policies in Regard to Coastal Areas) | |||
| “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] ↑ | |||
| P. attends a Chicago conference on religion (sociologists plus theologians) where he sees Taubes, the author of Abendländische Eschatologie[5] | End of November |
1956
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPSU General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounces the terrorist methods of his predecessor Joseph Stalin | Day with Abraham Rotstein | 02.25 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes I | |
| 02.29 | To Michael | |||
| Albert Camus, The Fall | 03.xx | (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 is accepted.[6] | 04.06 | |||
| 04.10 | To Abraham Rotstein | |||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 05.05 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes II | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 07.14 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes III | ||
| Two Days with Abraham Rotstein | 08.25 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes IV | ||
| Hungarian Revolution | 10.23-11.10 | |||
| 11.xx•12.xx | (Leplezett küluralom és szocialista közgazdaság) [Concealed Foreign Rule and Socialist Economics] | |||
| Dahomey and the Slave Trade ↑ |
1957
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | 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 | 04.06 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes IX | ||
| 04.24 | “The Machine and the Discovery of the Society“ | |||
| To Thomas A. Bledsoe | ||||
| P. sends an outline for an introduction of Freedom and Technology, to Bledsoe[7] | 04.24 | (Freedom in a complex society) | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 05.25 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XI | ||
| He thinks that he, and Abraham Rotstein, can finish Freedom and Technology for 31st December, 1957 | 05.26 | To Thomas A. Bledsoe | ||
| He and Abraham Rotstein receive a contract from Betty Howe (Beacon Press) for Freedom and Technology | 05.29 | From Betty Howe | ||
| P. and Abraham Rotstein firm a contrat for Freedom and Technology | 06.15 | Freedom and Technology | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 06.25 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XII | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 07.20 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XIII | ||
| “Terry is working on an article that P. wrote in 1945” [W. Notes XIV][8] | 08.__ | |||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 08.24 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XIV | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 09.14 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XV | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 10.12 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XVII | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 11.02 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XVIII | ||
| P. reads Lukacs's The Young Hegel (1948). | 12.05 | To Robert McIver | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 12.21 | 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
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.05 | Michael | |||
| P. reads Hegel (Phenomenology) and Lukacs's The Young Hegel.[9] | 01.30 | To Conrad Arensberg | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein, Paul Medow and Harry Pearson[10] | 02.15 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XX | ||
| P. participates in a TV program on C.B.C., “Fighting Words” | 02.16 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XX | ||
| P. reads Menger's Grundsätze [1923] | 02.19 | To Paul Medow | ||
| The Rockefeller Foundation refuses to support the continuation of CRSS Project[11] | 02.26 | |||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 03.29 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXI | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 04.27 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXII | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 05.04 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXII | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 06.30 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXIII | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 08.10 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXIII | ||
| Day with Abraham Rotstein | 08.23 | Abraham Rotstein, Weekend Notes XXIV | ||
| 09.26 | To Abraham Rotstein | |||
| Pope Pius XII dies | 10.09 | |||
| Cardinal Roncalli becomes Pope John XXIII | 10.23 | |||
| 11.22 | '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’) ↑ |
Continuing Group of the Interdisciplinary Project (1959-1964)
1959
| World's Event | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P. and A. Rostsein work on Freedom and Technology | 01.03 | To Thomas A. Bledsoe | ||
| 01.15 | (Gailbraith's Farewell to Poverty) | |||
| Continuing Group of the Interdisciplinary Project, Session No. 5, in New York.[13] | 02.03 | To George Dalton | ||
| 02.15 | (Aristotle and Gailbraith on Affluence) | |||
| 02.27 | (Aristotle and Gailbraith on Affluence) (2d ed.) | |||
| 03.13 | (Aristotle on an affluent society) | |||
| (Ötven év) [Fifty Years] | ||||
| 08.13 | (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
1961
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02.07 | < Outline for a revision of The Great transformation (1961) > | |||
| 03.30 | To Istvan Meszaros | |||
| 04.24 | To the Editors of Új Látóhatár | |||
| To Istvan Meszaros | ||||
| 05.xx | (The Hungarian Populists) | |||
| 05.28 | To George Dalton | |||
| P. spends the afternoon with Nathan Keyfitz[14] | 06.02 | |||
| 09.23 | (Notes on the Draft Program of the CPSU) ↑ |
1962
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.xx | “R. F. G. Sweet Review article“ | |||
| “Il pensiero sovietica in transizione“ | ||||
| Beginning of the Catholic Second Vatican Council | 10.11 | |||
| 12.02 | “Biographical notes” to Kari Polanyi-Levitt ↑ |
1963
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczyńska edit and publish The Plough and the Pen. Writings from Hungary. 1930-1956 | 01-02.__ | (Functions of Money in the Western Slave Trade) | ||
| 01.xx | To Kari Polanyi-Levitt | |||
| 03.xx | (Ports of Trade in Early Societies) | |||
| 05.13 | (Bücher, Karl (1847-1931)) | |||
| “Reflection on the article titled “Text of Pope John’s Encyclical ‘Pacem in Terris’, Calling for a World Community“ | ||||
| 05.27 | To György Lukács | |||
| Pope John XXIII dies | 06.03 | |||
| Cardinal Montini is elected Pope and takes the name Paul VI | 06.21 | |||
| K. P. and I. Duczyńska go to Hungary | 10.09 | Gazdágszociológia az egyesült államokban [Economic Sociology in the USA] | ||
| P. gives an interview to different persons in Budapest | 10.15 | Ankét | ||
| 12.xx | “Hazánk Kötelessege“ [Our Homeland's Duty] | |||
| Hungarian lecture on Rostow | ||||
| xx.xx | (Psychology and Ideology in Institutional Change - Actual and Postulated Motives) ↑ |
1964
| World Events | Polanyi's Extended Network(s) | Polanyi's Life | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.25 | To György Lukács | |||
| “Sortings and ‘Ounce Trade’ in the West African Slave Trade“ | ||||
| Karl Polanyi dies at 78. | 04.23 | ↑ |
Notes and References
- ↑ Dale 2016, 204
- ↑ See: 34/10
- ↑ Quoted in Dale 2016 ; Robert Merton Papers 68/07.
- ↑ Quoted in Dale 2016 ; Robert Merton Papers 68/07.
- ↑ See Letter to Michael (29 February 1956)
- ↑ 31/20, 21.
- ↑ Weekend Notes XII, 20.
- ↑ Almost certainly, (The Role of Strain in Institutional Change). -- Santiago Pinault.
- ↑ A. Rotstein, Weekend Notes XX, 14.
- ↑ In his letter of Febr. 1, 1958, Harry Pearson speaks about this meeting and in his Weekend Notes XX, Rotstein has a point “Paul Medow and the East”, proving he has talked with him.
- ↑ See From Norman S. Buchanan.
- ↑ On the name of this part, see 33/06.
- ↑ See 33/10.
- ↑ See. From Nathan Keyfitz (2 June 1961)