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In Washington, Lange combined his position of Polish Ambassador to the United States with that of the official Polish delegate to the United Nations where he was active in developing the work and the staff of the international organisation. On 7 November 1946, David Owen, who had just been appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, wrote to Edward Phelan, the Acting Director of the International Labour Organization. ‘I have been approached by the Polish government with the suggestion that Dr. Michael Kalecki, now a member of staff of the ILO, should be considered as candidate for a senior post in the Department of Economic Affairs. I have known Dr. Kalecki for some time and I have a high respect for his qualities as an economic theoretician. I am, for this reason, prepared to consider him for a senior post as an economic adviser somewhat detached from general administration and political work of my Department.’ Owen had seen Kalecki that day and told him that ‘I could not enter into any formal discussion with him concerning his candidature before you [i.e., the ILO] had informed me that you were prepared to release him. If you are prepared to consider releasing Dr. Kalecki, I should be happy to meet you in any way with regard to the date of his release.’ In the event, the ILO was co-operative. With Adela, Kalecki moved to New York, and, on 30 December 1946, he commenced work as Assistant Director of the Economic Stability and Development Division in the Department of Economic Affairs of the UN Secretariat.
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Notes
- 1.
Osiatyński ‘On Michał Kalecki’s Work for the United Nations’ in Osiatyński (ed.) Collected Works of Michał Kalecki Volume VII 1997.
- 2.
Letter of Adela Kalecka to Blanka Bronstein dated 14 March 1949, copy in the author’s possession.
- 3.
Ibid. Adela and Michał Kalecki were childless out of choice, at least during the decade they spent in Britain.
- 4.
Ibid.
- 5.
Letter of Adela Kalecka to Blanka Bronstein dated 8 January 1950, copy in the author’s possession.
- 6.
Letter of Adela Kalecka to Blanka Bronstein dated 14 March 1949, copy in the author’s possession.
- 7.
S. Braun ‘Note on Kalecki’s resignation’ Kalecki Papers PAN III—319.
- 8.
Dell ‘Kalecki at the United Nations 1946–1954’ 1977.
- 9.
Osiatyński ‘On Michał Kalecki’s Work for the United Nations’ in Osiatyński (ed.) Collected Works of Michał Kalecki Volume VII 1997.
- 10.
See Chap. 8 above.
- 11.
Dell ‘Kalecki at the United Nations 1947–1954’ 1977.
- 12.
Robbins ‘Journal of a visit to the United States, Jul–Aug 1949’ Robbins Papers, London School of Economics ROBBINS/6/21/2.
- 13.
Ibid.
- 14.
Ibid.
- 15.
S. Braun ‘Note on Kalecki’s resignation’ Kalecki Papers PAN III—319.
- 16.
Dell ‘Kalecki at the United Nations 1947–1954’ 1977.
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
United Nations National and International Measures for Full Employment 1949.
- 19.
Ibid. Paragraph 183, cited in Dell ‘Kalecki at the United Nations 1947–1954’ 1977.
- 20.
Ibid.
- 21.
Economic and Social Council resolution 290(XI) adopted on 15 August 1950, quoted in Dell ‘Kalecki at the United Nations 1947–1954’ 1977.
- 22.
Dell ‘Kalecki at the United Nations 1947–1954’ 1977.
- 23.
Osiatyński (ed.) Collected Works of Michał Kalecki Volume V Developing Economies 1993b, p. 207.
- 24.
Ibid., p. 213.
- 25.
Kalecki ‘Report on the Main Current Economic Problems of Israel’ 1950.
- 26.
Osiatyński, J. Collected Works of Michał Kalecki Volume V Developing Countries pp. 215–216.
- 27.
Osiatyński, J. Collected Works of Michał Kalecki Volume V Developing Countries p. 206. Javier Marquez, a Spanish economist who trained in Madrid, Paris and the London School of Economics, fled Spain and took refuge in Mexico in 1939, where he worked at the Banco de Mexico, before persuading his employer to establish CEMLA. See Turrent CEMLA: A Key Institution in Latin America 1952–2012 2015. Mention of Kalecki’s lectures to CEMLA is notably absent from Turrent’s commemorative volume on the history of CEMLA.
- 28.
Kalecki ‘The Problem of Financing Economic Development’ 1954b.
- 29.
Ibid.
- 30.
Ibid.
- 31.
Ibid. Kalecki had referred to these ‘highly significant’ repercussions of public investment in the 1930s, when he had argued that ‘crowding out’ criticisms of public expenditure would, if correct, exclude any autonomous increase in investment.
- 32.
Cf. ‘…profits depend on high or low wages, wages on the price of necessaries, and the price of necessaries chiefly on the price of food, because all other requisites may be increased almost without limit.’ Ricardo ‘On Profits’ in Principles of Political Economy 1817, p. 119.
- 33.
Ibid.
- 34.
Ibid.
- 35.
Ibid.
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Toporowski, J. (2018). At the United Nations. In: Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography. Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69664-5_10
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