Systems, Institutions, and Values in East and West: Engaging with Jnos Kornai's Scholarship Piroska Dra
In this volume, leading social scientists, empirical analysts, and policy practitioners demonstrate the various ways in which the insights of J nos Kornai, a renowned early analyst and critic of the…
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In this volume, leading social scientists, empirical analysts, and policy practitioners demonstrate the various ways in which the insights of J nos Kornai, a renowned early analyst and critic of the command economies of Eastern European communist states, are stirring academic and policy discussions about current challenges. While dissecting the economic theories and practices in the Soviet Bloc, Kornai devised and applied concepts such as soft-budget constraints, rush versus harmonic growth, surplus versus shortage economy, non-Walrasian equilibrium, bureaucratic coordination, and the invisible power of the communist party. These concepts are commonly applied to a variety of issues in the contexts of fundamental transformation. The cases discussed in this volume include the transitional paths of postcommunist economies, the pitfalls of East European market-building, economic
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