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Kornai János |
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By force of thought : irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey / / János Kornai |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
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0-262-61224-0 |
1-282-09799-7 |
9786612097997 |
0-262-27744-1 |
1-4294-6092-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (485 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-447) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; 1 My Family and Youth-1928-1944; 2 How I Became a Communist-1945-1947; 3 On a Communist Newspaper-1947-1955; 4 Waking Up-1953-1955; 5 The Beginning of a Research Career- 1955-October 23, 1956; 6 Revolution and After-October 23, 1956-1959; 7 My Universities-1957-1959; 8 The Economic Application of Mathematical Methods-1957-1968; 9 Traveling to the West-1963 Onward; 10 Against the Current-1967-1970; 11 Institute, University, and Academy-1967 Onward; 12 Pathfinding and Preparation-1971-1976; 13 Pieces Falling into Place-1971-1980; 14 A Breakthrough-1979 Onward |
15 Amicable, Dispassionate Criticism-1968-198916 Harvard-1984-2002; 17 At Home in Hungary and in the World- 1985 Onward; 18 Synthesis-1988-1993; 19 Turning Point-1989-1992; 20 On the Boundaries between Science and Politics- 1990 Onward; 21 Continuation-1990 Onward; Endnotes; Chronology; Glossary; References; Index |
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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 |
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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. |
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