Application for a Stipend from the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences (1956?)
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The research into the origins of economic institutions, started in 1948 has since been carried on with no intermission. […] In 1953 Professor Arensberg joined in the undertaking for which we were fortunate enough to be granted financial support from the Ford Foundation, administrated by Columbia University. Under our co-editorship a Joint Study is to be published on the subject written to a large part by junior scholars closely connected with my anterior labors. This Study is to be brought out by The Free Press, Glencoe, Ill. in January 1957. Meanwhile, in several bound volumes, the contents have been made available to Columbia students at Burgess Library, in mimeo'd form.
All this creates a position of considerable difficulty in publishing regarding the Main Report on Project 190, the MS. of which, under the title “Livelihood of Man” was already practically completed, when the Joint Study was conceived, edited, and eventually, accepted for publication. Not only is my own authorship involved in both books (several contributions to the Joint Study are by myself) but the books are now to appear so to speak in reversed sequence: The Joint Study was in effet a 'follow-up' of the “Livelihood of Man”, nevertheless it is now to appear before the originating work. True, the monographic topics of the “Livelihood of Man” - Greece and Dahomey - have been hardly touched [14] upon in the Joint Study, but the leading propositions as well as the main methodological initiative are very closely related. This make a reconstruction of my “Livelihood” unavoidable, which otherwise might seem to ignore the more advanced results of the Joint Study. At the same time this latter work, far from superseding the earlier MS., is going to give added topicality to its broader vistas and their monographic elaboration. Incidentally, I described on the title-page as done "with the co-operation of Mr. Charles E. Silberman and (Mrs.) Rosemary Arnold", my then associates under the C.R.S.S. project.
The MS. of the “Livelihood of Man” was withdrawn by me from Rinehart & Co., when Professor Arensberg and myself submitted the MS. of the Joint Study to the Free Press.
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Date: 1956?
KPA: 31/15, 13-15