Magyar szociológiatörténeti füzetek, 2. (Budapest, 1986)

Summary

1946 He corresponds with Prorector Gyula Moor and Dean Ferenc Eckhart about a possible lecture cource at Budapest University, which finally is not carried out for refusal of entrance visa.

1947 Polanyi is offered a professorship at Columbia University, New York, on the basis of The Great Transformation. He lectures on international economic history.

1947 They settle down in Pickering, Canada, since the

communist past of Ilona Duczynska prevents her from acquiring an entrance visa from the American Consul in London.

194B The Council for Research in the Social Sciences at

Columbia University accepts his project for research in the origin of economic institutions.

1957 Trade and Market in the Early Empires, which Polanyi co-edited with Conrad M. Arensberg and Harry W. Pearson, is published.

1960 November 21st. He resignes membership of the Society of Hungarian Writers Abroad "as a protest to the presidential report's offensive behaviour against writers at home".

1960 December. He visits Hungary.

1963 The Plough and the Pen, the anthology edited with Ilona Duczynska, is published.

1963 Visits Hungary. Invites subscribers to Co-Existence, meets old Galileians and writers (Péter Veres, László Németh); gives lectures.

1964 April 23nd. He dies.