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By force of thought [[electronic resource] ] : irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey / / János Kornai



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Autore: Kornai János Visualizza persona
Titolo: By force of thought [[electronic resource] ] : irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey / / János Kornai Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (485 p.)
Disciplina: 330.092
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Soggetto topico: Economists - Hungary
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-447) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: By force of thought  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-61224-0
1-282-09799-7
9786612097997
0-262-27744-1
1-4294-6092-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452178203321
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