Kari Polanyi Levitt encouraged the compilation of this book and supported its publication. She contributed to it with valuable advice and the translation from German of four chapters. She also gave the publisher permission to reproduce the material in this volume, as the owner of Karl Polanyi's literary legacy. Both we and the publisher are extremely grateful to her.
Polanyi's manuscripts published in this volume are deposited with Concordia University Library and are available from the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Montreal. We wish to thank the Institute – and in particular its director, Marguerite Mendell, and Ana Gomez – for their efficient and friendly support for our work.
We also wish to thank the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, and especially Michael Brie, for granting the permission to publish the translation of ‘On Freedom’ from German.