Formative Years | Polanyi on Polanyi
Channel: New Economic Thinking
Date: 26/02/2020

Daughter of the political economist Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska, a leader of the Hungarian Communist revolution, Polanyi Levitt was born in Vienna in 1923. In this clip, she talks about her youth in interwar Vienna, and how that shaped her outlook on the issues facing the world today.

About “Polyanyi on Polanyi”:
Kari Polanyi Levitt, Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, is a legend in the economics profession, famous for her contributions to economic development and economic sovereignty. But she has also had a legendary life: the only child of the influential political economist Karl Polanyi, Kari’s research has carried her from the London Blitz to the Canadian labor movement to the government of Trinidad and Tobago.

In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.