Polanyi Levitt was born in Vienna, Austria and relocated to England with her father in 1933 and attended
Bedales School and the
London School of Economics. After graduating in 1947 she moved to Canada, and in 1950 married the Canadian historian Joseph Levitt. She received a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1959, and joined the Department of Economics at McGill University in 1961. Polanyi Levitt
turned 100 on June 14, 2023. == Works ==