Karl Polanyi papers, 1937-1963, bulk 1947-1963

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Series IV: Research Materials, 1949-1959

This series contains handwritten and typescript notes, short written sketches, correspondence, clippings, and other materials relating to Polanyi's research projects Those notes which were labeled or clearly identified as belonging with a project, course, or Columbia University-related project generally have been included with those materials. The files that cannot be identified have generally been left in their original folder, as many of these folders appear to have been marked by Polanyi himself.

The material in this series is arranged alphabetically.



Box 10 Folder 3 Alalakh data, undated


Box 10 Folder 4-5 Antiquity, undated, (2 Folders)


Box 10 Folder 6 Aristotle, 1956-1957


Box 10 Folder 7 Auction, undated


Box 10 Folder 8-9 Bibliographies, 1949-1951 (2 Folders), 1949-1951


Box 10 Folder 10-11 Carl Menger, 1958-1959 (2 Folders), 1958-1959


Box 10 Folder 12-14 Cuneiform, 1950-1957 (3 Folders), 1950-1957



Box 11 Folder 1 Economic Theory, Markets/Trade, Ancient Rome, undated


Box 11 Folder 2-3 Feudalism, 1950s (2 Folders), 1950s


Box 11 Folder 4-6 General Economic History, undated (3 Folders), undated


Box 11 Folder 7 Greece, undated


Box 11 Folder 8 Hegel on "Civil Society", undated


Box 11 Folder 9-11 Israel, 1950s (3 Folders), 1950s


Box 11 Folder 12 Mahirum, undated


Box 11 Folder 13 Market as Institution, circa.1959


Box 11 Folder 14 Marx, circa., 1956



Box 12 Folder 1-6 Money and Circulation, Equivalencies, 1950-1959 (6 Folders), 1950-1959


Box 12 Folder 7 Mycenae, circa.1958


Box 12 Folder 8 Von Mises Theory and History, undated


Box 12 Folder 9 Oikos Controversy, undated


Box 12 Folder 10 Operational Devices, undated


Box 12 Folder 11 "Palace Economy, Temple Economy, and Market Economy in Tribal Israel" by George Woodard,, undated


Box 12 Folder 12 Pirenne, undated


Box 12 Folder 13 Politics, Psychology, undated


Box 12 Folder 14-15 Primitive Economics, undated (2 Folders), undated



Box 13 Folder 1-2 Ronald Sweet Dissertation, 1958 (2 Folders), 1958