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"Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then became a critic of the communist political and economic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theorist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been a journalist, a researcher prohibited from teaching in his home country, and a tenured professor at Harvard. By Force of Thought traces Kornai's lifelong intellectual journey and offers a subjective complement to his academic research." "Kornai's memoir describes his research - including his present-day evaluation of his past work - as well as the social and political environments in which he did his work. The difficulties faced by a critic of central planning in a communist country are made especially vivid by material from newly opened secret police files and informers' reports on his activities. By Force of Thought will be a resource for students of economic thought, socialist systems, and postsocialist transition, and for readers interested in Eastern European intellectual life before, during, and after communism."--Jacket.
Economic schools --- Economists --- Kornai, János --- Kornai, János. --- ECONOMICS/Political Economy --- HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography --- Social scientists --- Kʻo-erh-nei, Ya-no-shen --- Kʻo-erh-nei --- Kornai, I︠A︡nosh --- Economists - Hungary - Biography
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Kornai examines capitalism as an economic system and in comparison to socialism. He offers a view of capitalism as an economy of surplus - a chronic excess of supply of goods and labour. This environment breeds rivalry among producers, which in turn encourages innovation. Socialism, on the other hand, is defined by a shortage of goods and labour and excess of demand. Whereas socialism is slothful and imitative, capitalism is dynamic and progressive. The two chapters of this book explore these differing ideologies.
Capitalism. --- Socialism. --- Surplus (Economics) --- Economics --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- Market economy --- Profit --- Capital --- Capitalism --- Socialism --- E-books
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To understand the dramatic collapse of the socialist order and the current turmoil in the formerly communist world, this comprehensive work examines the most important common properties of all socialist societies. JNBnos Kornai brings a life-long study of the problems of the socialist system to his explanation of why inherent attributes of socialism inevitably produced in-efficiency. In his past work he has focused on the economic sphere, maintaining consistently that the weak economic performance of socialist countries resulted from the system itself, not from the personalities of top leaders or mistakes made by leading organizations and planners. This book synthesizes themes from his earlier investigations, while broadening the discussion to include the role of the political power structure and of communist ideology. Kornai distinguishes between two types, or historical phases, of socialism. The "classical socialism" of Stalin, Mao, and their followers is totalitarian and brutally repressive, but its components fit together and make up a coherent edifice. Associated with names like Tito, KNBdar, Deng-Xiaoping, and Gorbachev, "reform socialism" relaxes repression, but brings about a sharpening of inner contradictions and the eventual dissolution of the system. Kornai examines the classical system in the first half of the book, and moves on to explore the complex process of reform in thesecond half. The Socialist System is addressed to economists in the first place, but also to political scientists, sociologists, and historians. In addition, it will appeal to policymakers, business analysts, and government officials who need to understand either formerly or presently communist countries.
Planeconomie. --- Communisme. --- Communism. --- Aggregate demand. --- Agriculture. --- Backwardness. --- Bank. --- Bribery. --- Budget constraint. --- Budget. --- Calculation. --- Capital market. --- Capitalism. --- Central bank. --- Commodity. --- Competition. --- Consideration. --- Consumer Goods. --- Consumer. --- Consumption (economics). --- Credit (finance). --- Currency. --- Customer. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Decentralization. --- Developed country. --- Drawback. --- East Germany. --- Economic development. --- Economic equilibrium. --- Economic planning. --- Economic policy. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Exchange rate. --- Expense. --- Household. --- Ideology. --- Incentive. --- Income. --- Industry. --- Inflation. --- Institution. --- Interest. --- Investment fund. --- Investment. --- Legislature. --- Mao Zedong. --- Market economy. --- Market mechanism. --- Market price. --- Market socialism. --- Marxian economics. --- Marxism. --- Nationalization. --- Organization. --- Paternalism. --- Payment. --- Planned economy. --- Planning. --- Political economy. --- Political structure. --- Politician. --- Power structure. --- Price controls. --- Price fixing. --- Price level. --- Price system. --- Pricing. --- Private property. --- Private sector. --- Public sector. --- Quantity. --- Rationing. --- Regulation. --- Relative price. --- Representative democracy. --- Requirement. --- Saving. --- Scarcity. --- Shortage economy. --- Shortage. --- Socialist economics. --- Socialist state. --- Soviet Union. --- State (polity). --- Subsidy. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supply (economics). --- Supply and demand. --- Tax. --- Trade union. --- Unemployment. --- Utilization. --- Wage. --- Wealth. --- Workforce. --- Writing. --- Yugoslavia.
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Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector.
Health care reform --- Medical policy --- Health planning --- Medical care --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Comprehensive health planning --- Health care planning --- Health services planning --- Medical care planning --- Planning --- Health services administration --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Health reform --- Health system reform --- Healthcare reform --- Medical care reform --- Reform of health care delivery --- Reform of medical care delivery --- Health insurance --- Government policy --- Health care reforms --- 316.323.65 --- Verzorgingsstaat. Welvaartsstaat --- 316.323.65 Verzorgingsstaat. Welvaartsstaat --- Services de santé --- Politique sanitaire --- Santé publique --- Soins médicaux --- Réforme --- Planification --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Health care reforms - Europe, Eastern. --- Medical policy - Europe, Eastern. --- Health planning - Europe, Eastern. --- Medical care - Europe, Eastern.
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'Overcentralization in Economic Administration' (1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that openly criticized socialist central planning. In this work the distinguished economist János Kornai begins a lifelong study of the economic organization of centrally planned economies. Professor Kornai's aim in this book was to observe the reality of the working socialist system, and to draw conclusions that were not distorted by the laws of Marxist political economy. He provided a lucid and coherent account of conditions, along with normative recommendations which influenced the Hungarian reform process, culminating in the economic changes of 1968.
Central planning --- 1945-1989 --- Hungary --- Economic policy --- Industry. --- Industry & industrial studies.
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Countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are entering the second decade of political transformation and economic reform. The first decade involved macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, and development of the basic institutional infrastructure of a market economy. The new policy challenges center on the nature of the social contract between citizens and their governments. These challenges include identifying the appropriate boundaries between the obligations of the public sector and the responsibilities of individual citizens, the range of public goods the government should supply, and who should pay for and benefit from their provision. The essays in this volume, first published in 2001, focus on two interrelated issues: the making of fiscal policy and the provision of citizens' welfare, particularly regarding pensions and health care. The essays emphasize that there is no single model of a market economy; rather, governments and publics face a range of options for restructuring the socialist welfare state.
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Economic policy. --- Economic policy --- Entscheidungstheorie. --- Optimierung. --- Entscheidungstheorie. --- Optimierung. --- Economic policy --- Politique économique --- Mathematical models. --- Mathematical models. --- Modèles mathématiques --- Hungary. --- Hungary --- Hongrie --- Economic policy. --- Politique économique
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With the aim of providing a comprehensive analysis of institutions, and of the global economy more generally, this volume explores systems of institutions and the effect of corruption, developments in behavioural economics, the impact of immigration, and the links between democratic progress and economic growth.
Economics --- Political corruption --- Economic policy --- Economie politique --- Corruption (Politique) --- Politique économique --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Economic policy. --- Economic policy --Congresses. --- Economics. --- Economics --Congresses. --- Political corruption. --- Political corruption --Congresses. --- Economic Theory --- Business & Economics --- Politique économique --- Congrès --- Economics - Congresses --- Political corruption - Congresses --- Economic policy - Congresses
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