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János Kornai

Papers on the Web

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Links to Papers in English
  • "Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint." By János Kornai, Eric Maskin, and Gérard Roland. 2002.
    Working Paper
  • "Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary." In Lord Dahrendorf and Yehuda Elkana, eds. The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, Budapest: CEU Press, 2000.
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  • "What the Change of System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean."Journal of Economic Perspectives. Winter 2000, 14:1, pp. 27-42.
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  • "Ten Years After 'The Road to a Free Economy', The Author Self-Evaluation." In Boris Pleskovic and Nicholas Stern, eds. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000, pp. 49-66. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001.
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Links to Interviews
  • The main objective: lasting growth. The Hungarian central bank, says János Kornai, is on the wrong track if it one-sidedly tries to curb inflation. (A legfontosabb: a tartós növekedés. Kornai János szerint tévúton jár a jegybank, ha egyoldalúan erőlteti az infláció csökkentését) Interview with János Kornai. Published in the Hungarian daily newspaper: Népszabadság, January 25, 2003. Vol. 61. No. 21. pp. 23, 27
    Hungarian text
  • "Turning Visions into Reality," Economist János Kornai Talks about Welfare, Freedom and the Transition of Central and Eastern Europe, Options (IIASA), Summer 1996, pp. 16-17.

Links to Papers in Hungarian