Kari Polanyi Levitt (born June 14, 1923)[1] is an Austrian-born Canadian economist, currently Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal.
She is also the literary executor of her father, the economic historian Karl Polanyi.
After graduating in 1947 she moved to Canada, and in 1950 married the Canadian historian Joseph Levitt.
Her position paper for the NDP on foreign direct investment in Canada eventually became "Silent Surrender.
"[1] Polanyi Levitt has maintained contact with colleagues in the Caribbean throughout her career and has held several posts as a visiting professor at the University of the West Indies, as well as serving as an advisor on the creation of a system of national accounts for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.