Bennington College's Lecture Series (1943) where his topic was "Jean Jacques Rousseau: Or Is a Free Society Possible?" After the war, Polanyi received a teaching position at Columbia University (1947–1953). However, his wife, Ilona Duczyńska (1897–1978), had a background as a former communist, which made gaining an entrance visa in the United States impossible. As a result, they moved to Canada, and Polanyi commuted to New York City. In the early 1950s, Polanyi received a large grant from the Ford Foundation to study the economic systems of ancient empires. Having described the emergence of the modern economic system, Polanyi now sought to understand how "the economy" emerged as a distinct sphere in the distant past. His seminar at Columbia drew several famous scholars and influenced a generation of teachers, resulting in the 1957 volume Trade and Market in the Early Empires. Polanyi continued to write in his later years and established a new journal entitled Coexistence. In Canada he lived in Pickering, Ontario, where he died in 1964. Selected works "Socialist Accounting" (1922) The Essence of Fascism (1933–1934); article The Great Transformation (1944) "Universal Capitalism or Regional Planning?", The London Quarterly of World Affairs, vol. 10 (3) (1945) Trade and Market in the Early Empires (1957, edited and with contributions by others) Dahomey and the Slave Trade (1966) George Dalton (ed), Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economics: Essays of Karl Polanyi (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1968); collected essays and selections from his work. Harry W. Pearson (ed.), The Livelihood of Man (Academic Press, 1977) Karl Polanyi, For a New West: Essays, 1919–1958 (Polity Press, 2014), Gareth Dale (ed), Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian Writings (Manchester University Press, 2016) See also Michael Polanyi (brother) John Polanyi (nephew) Eva Zeisel (cousin) Notes References Dale, Gareth (2016), Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0745335186 Further reading Robert Kuttner, "The Man from Red Vienna" (review of Gareth Dale, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left, Columbia University Press, 381 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXIV, no. 20 (21 December 2017), pp. 55–57. "In sum, Polanyi got some details wrong, but he got the big picture right. Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics. To ignore that is to court fascism. (Robert Kuttner, p. 57.) External links Karl Polanyi Digital Archive The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy – The Karl Polanyi Institute of