János Kornai

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János Kornai is affiliated with the following schools: Central European University, Corvinus University of Budapest, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, János Kornai was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states. He also covered macroeconomic aspects in countries undergoing post-Soviet transition. He was emeritus professor at both Harvard University and Corvinus University of Budapest. Kornai was known to have coined the term shortage economy to reflect perpetual shortages of goods in the centrally-planned command economies of the Eastern Bloc.

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The Socialist System (1992) (1180)
The soft budget constraint (1986) (1120)
Economics of shortage (1982) (962)
Farewell to Socialism@@@The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism. (1993) (902)
Resource-Constrained versus Demand-Constrained Systems (1979) (742)
Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint (2003) (507)
Transformational Recession: The Main Causes (1994) (400)
The Hungarian Reform Process: Visions, Hopes, and Reality (1986) (374)
The road to a free economy: Shifting from a socialist system : the example of Hungary (1991) (309)
The Great Transformation of Central Eastern Europe (2006) (306)
What the Change of System From Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean (2000) (252)
From Socialism to Capitalism and Democracy (2003) (242)
Two-Level Planning (1965) (236)
The economics of transition: From socialist economy to market economy (1996) (180)
The Postsocialist Transition and the State: Reflections in the Light of Hungarian Fiscal Problems. (1992) (172)
The Affinity between Ownership Forms and Coordination Mechanisms: The Common Experience of Reform in Socialist Countries (1990) (160)
Anti-Equilibrium: On Economic Systems Theory and the Tasks of Research (1971) (141)
Hardening the budget constraint: The experience of the post-socialist countries (2001) (141)
Hungary’s U-Turn: Retreating from Democracy (2015) (135)
Building a trustworthy state in post-socialist transition (2004) (134)
Creating social trust in post-socialist transition (2004) (132)
The Place of the Soft Budget Constraint Syndrome in Economic Theory (1998) (130)
The Great Transformation Of Central Eastern Europe: Success And Disappointment - First Published (2006) (128)
Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition: Reforming the Health Sector in Eastern Europe (2001) (120)
The Evolution of Financial Discipline under the Postsocialist System (1993) (114)
Ten Years after 'the Road to a Free Economy': The Author's Self-Evaluation (2000) (108)
Contradictions and Dilemmas: Studies on the Socialist Economy and Society (1986) (77)
Highway and Byways: Studies on Reform and Postcommunist Transition (1994) (76)
Transformational Recession; A General Phenomenon Examined Through the Example of Hangary's Development (1993) (75)
The System Paradigm (1998) (74)
Mathematical Planning Of Structural Decisions (1968) (64)
Individual freedom and reform of the socialist economy (1988) (62)
Reforming the State: Fiscal And Welfare Reform In Post-Socialist Countries (2001) (62)
Hungary's U-Turn (2015) (60)
The dilemmas of a socialist economy : the Hungarian experience (1980) (59)
The principles of privatization in Eastern Europe (1992) (58)
Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary (2000) (58)
The System Paradigm Revisited. Clarification and Additions In the Light of Experiences in the Post-Socialist Region (2016) (55)
Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy: Two Essays on the Nature of Capitalism (2013) (52)
Paying the Bill for Goulash-Communism: Hungarian Development and Macro Stabilization in a Political-Economy Perspective (1996) (48)
Struggle and hope : essays on stabilization and reform in a post-socialist economy (1997) (47)
Overcentralization in economic administration : a critical analysis based on experience in Hungarian light industry (1960) (46)
The soft budget constraint syndrome in the hospital sector (2009) (45)
Growth, Shortage and Efficiency: A Macrodynamic Model of the Socialist Economy (1982) (43)
Gomulka on the soft budget constraint: A reply (1985) (42)
The Normal State of the Market in a Shortage Economy: A Queue Model (1978) (42)
The Road to a Free Economy: Shifting from a Socialist System: the (1990) (39)
"HARD" AND "SOFT" BUDGET CONSTRAINT (2016) (39)
Innovation and Dynamism. Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress (2012) (38)
The Politics of Labor-Market Adjustment: The Case of Russia (2001) (36)
Tax awareness and reform of the welfare state: Hungarian survey results (1998) (36)
Legal Obligation, Non-Compliance and Soft Budget Constraint (1998) (35)
Editorial: Reforming the welfare state in postsocialist societies (1997) (34)
Highways and Byways: Studies on Reform and Post-Communist Transition. (1996) (33)
Reforming the State (2001) (32)
Choice and Solidarity: The Health Sector in Eastern Europe and Proposals for Reform (2001) (31)
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey (2006) (31)
Non-price control (1981) (28)
From Socialism to Capitalism (2008) (27)
Market and socialism : in the light of the experiences of China and Vietnam (2009) (24)
Vision and Reality, Market and State: Contradictions and Dilemmas Revisited (1990) (24)
Appraisal of Project Appraisal (1979) (24)
Autonomous Control of the Economic System (1973) (23)
Interaction between Systems and Technical Progressinnovation and Dynamism (2010) (23)
Adjustment without recession: a case study of Hungarian stabilization (1996) (23)
The System Paradigm Revisited (2017) (22)
Ethical Issues in Income Distribution: National and International (1981) (21)
Reforming the State: The Borderline between the Spheres of Authority of the Citizen and the State: Recommendations for the Hungarian Health Reform (2001) (21)
The Reform of the Welfare State and Public Opinion (1997) (21)
Is Post-Communist Health Spending Unusual? (2000) (21)
Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition (2001) (21)
Is Post-Communist Health Spending Unusual? A Comparison with Established Market Economies (2001) (21)
Comments on the Present State and the Prospects of the Hungarian Economic Reform (1983) (21)
Eliminating the shortage economy: a general analysis and examination of the dévelopments in Hungary: Part (1995) (20)
Hardening of the budget constraint under the postsocialist system (1996) (20)
Institutional change and economic behaviour (2008) (19)
From Socialism to Capitalism: Eight Essays (2008) (19)
A Mathematical Investigation of Some Economic Effects of Profit Sharing in Socialist Firms (1962) (18)
Multi-level programming --a first report on the model and on the experimental computations (1969) (18)
The Rise of the Private Sector (1992) (18)
Transformational Recession: The Example of Hungary (1995) (17)
Paying the Bill for Goulash-Communism (1996) (15)
Lasting Growth as the Top Priority: Macroeconomic Tensions and Government Economic Policy in Hungary (1996) (15)
A general descriptive model of planning processes (1970) (15)
The Health of Nations: Reflections on the Analogy Between the Medical Science and Economics (1983) (15)
Honesty and Trust in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition (2003) (14)
Lectures on Macroeconomic Planning: 1. General Aspects (1979) (13)
An Introductory Study to Volume IV of the Life's Work Series* (2014) (12)
Centralisation and the capitalist market economy (2012) (12)
Adjustment to Price and Quantity Signals in a Socialist Economy (1984) (12)
Macroeconomic Stabilization in Transition Economies: The Political Economy of the Hungarian Stabilization and Austerity Program (1997) (12)
Struggle and Hope (1997) (11)
Reproduction of shortage in the Hungarian car market (1984) (10)
The Dynamics of the Changes (1992) (10)
Decentralized control problems in neumann-economies☆ (1977) (10)
So What is Capital in the Twenty-First Century? Some Notes on Piketty's Book (2016) (10)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: References (2001) (9)
Some Properties of the Eastern European Growth Pattern (1981) (9)
Centralization and the Capitalist Market Economy in Hungary (2012) (9)
Corruption, development and institutional design (2009) (9)
Ten Years After The Road to a Free Economy: The Author’s Self-evaluation of Privatisation (2003) (9)
The great transformation of central and eastern Europe: Success and disappointment (2005) (9)
The Chinese Economic Reform — as Seen by Hungarian Economists (1989) (8)
Postsocialist transition: an overall survey (1993) (8)
Man-machine planning (1969) (8)
1956 in Hungary: as I saw it then and as I see it now (2020) (8)
Marx through the Eyes of an East European Intellectual (2014) (7)
Socialist Transformation and Privatization: Shifting from a Socialist System (1990) (7)
Tax-Awareness and the Reform of the Welfare State (1997) (7)
The Road to Freedom (1991) (6)
The Dilemmas of the Hungarian Economic Policy (1995) (6)
What Does “Change of System” Mean? (2008) (6)
Comments on papers prepared in the World Bank about socialist countries (1985) (6)
Frankenstein's Moral Responsibility (2019) (5)
Ten Years after “The Road to a Free Economy”: Self-estimate of the Author (2001) (5)
Négy jellegzetesség. A magyar fejlődés politikai gazdaságtani megközelítésben. Első rész [Four characteristic features. Development in Hungary from the aspect of political economy. First Part] (1995) (5)
The soft budget constraint I-II (2004) (5)
Shortage as a fundamental problem of centrally planned economies and the Hungarian reform (1982) (5)
Breaking promises. The Hungarian experience (2013) (5)
A magyar gazdaságpolitika dilemmái [Dilemmas of the Hungarian economic policy] (1995) (5)
Innováció és dinamizmus. Kölcsönhatás a rendszerek és a technikai haladás között (2022) (4)
Mathematical Programming of Long-Term Plans in Hungary (1967) (4)
Rush versus harmonic growth : meditation on the theory and on the policies of economic growth (1975) (4)
What can countries embarking on post-socialist transformation learn from the experiences so far? (2004) (4)
Where is the line between independent economic analysis and active policy making (2010) (3)
Hungary’s Reform: Halfway to the Market (1985) (3)
What Economics of Shortage and The Socialist System have to say to the (Hungarian) readers today (2012) (3)
Mathematical programming as a tool in drawing up the five-year economic plan (1965) (3)
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Reflections on the Changes following the Collapse of Communism (2010) (3)
Growth and macroeconomic disequilibria in Hungary ; Transformational recession : the Hungarian example (1994) (3)
Money and Price (1992) (2)
What does 'change of system' mean? An attempt to clarify the concept (2007) (2)
Descriptive‐explanatory theoretical models of the socialist economy: Review of a research direction (1984) (2)
Tíz évvel a Röpirat angol kiadásának megjelenése után. A szerző önértékelése [Ten years after the English edition of `The Road to a Free Economy'. The author's self-evaluation] (2000) (2)
Milyen is hát a tőke a 21. században?. Megjegyzések Piketty könyvéhez [So what is capital in the 21st century?. Notes on Piketty s book] (2015) (2)
Comment on “Macropolicies in Transition to a Market Economy: A Three-Year Perspective,” by Balcerowicz and Gelb (1994) (2)
The Relevance of the Marshallian Concept of Normality in Interior and in Inertial Dynamics as Revisited (2011) (2)
The structure of economic systems New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. xii + 323 pp., index. Cloth, $20.00 (1978) (2)
The Coherence of the Classical System (1992) (2)
Comprar Welfare, Choice and Solidarity in Transition | János Kornai | 9780521159371 | Cambridge University Press (2010) (1)
Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress (2010) (1)
Some system-specific features of capitalism (2008) (1)
Recent Contributions to the Political Economy of State Socialism@@@Planned Economy, Investments, Cycles.@@@Economics of Shortage. (1985) (1)
János Kornai: About the value of democracy and other challenging research topics. Closing remarks at the conference on February 22, 2018 (2018) (1)
Eltérnek-e a nemzetközileg szokásostól a posztszocialista országok egészségügyi kiadásai? [Is the health spending of post-communist countries internationally unusual?] (2001) (1)
Plan sounding (1971) (1)
The Subject and Method (1992) (1)
Shifting Away from Democracy - Hungary's U-Turn (2015) (1)
The citizen and the state: reform of the welfare system (1998) (1)
Investment and Growth (1992) (1)
CENTRALIZATION AND MARKET REFORM: - AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY TO VOLUME III OF THE LIFE'S WORK SERIES (2013) (1)
Capitalism and Society (2015) (1)
Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey: questions about the state of economics. An interview with János Kornai (2013) (1)
Ten years after ‘the road to a free economy’: the author's self-evaluation (2000) (1)
Privatization: The Great Problem of Transition in Eastern Europe (1991) (1)
Ahistorical Political Economics (1996) (1)
On the death of Kenneth J. Arrow. A personal leave-taking (2017) (0)
The force of the protests against globalization derives from a now age-old hostility to the liberal market economy. But what are the underlying features of a liberal economy? What does such an economy imply for democracy and for international relations? (2005) (0)
The Market for Goods and Services: The Mechanism for the Reproduction of Surplus (2013) (0)
Differentiation and cooperation in the social sciences (2006) (0)
Equilibrium, Growth And Reform (2006) (0)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: The demand side: financing, benefits, and organization of insurance (2001) (0)
Kornai on Soft Budget Constraints, Bail-Outs and the Financial Crisis (2018) (0)
The general principles of reform (2001) (0)
EUROPE: SUCCESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT - FIRST PUBLISHED (2006) (0)
A demokrácia értékéről és más kutatási témákról. Kornai János záró megjegyzései a tiszteletére rendezett konferencián (2018) (0)
Transformation and the Acceleration of Technical Progress (2013) (0)
A Personal Postscript (2013) (0)
The health sector in Eastern Europe: the initial state (2001) (0)
Gazdasagi remdszerelmelet es altalanos egyensulyemelet (from Hungarian translated by Tsuneo Morita)(SPECIAL ISSUE (III) COMMEMORATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HOSEI UNIVERSITY) (1982) (0)
Scitovsky Tibor (1910-2002) [Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002)] (2002) (0)
The Antecedents and Prototypes of the System (1992) (0)
On the Slowing Down of the Growth of Eastern-European Socialist Countries (1982) (0)
A hiány újratermelése (The reproduction of shortage) (2014) (0)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: Concluding remarks (2001) (0)
On the Softening of the Budget Constraint : an Empirical Study (1984) (0)
SLR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (2000) (0)
Consumption and Distribution (1992) (0)
SOME COMMENTS ON REFORMING THE SYSTEM OF HEALTH INSURANCE IN HUNGARY (2008) (0)
Scitovsky Tibor (1910-2002) (2002) (0)
The Disciplines in Social Sciences: Division or Cooperation (2007) (0)
Shortage and Inflation: The Causes (1992) (0)
Departures from the General Scheme (2013) (0)
Reforming the State: Preface (2001) (0)
Shortage and Inflation: The Phenomena (1992) (0)
Nagy András 70 éves [András Nagy has reached 70 years of age. My friend: András Nagy] (1996) (0)
European economic association statutes (1987) (0)
Hardening of the budget constraint in the post-socialist countries (2000) (0)
Equilibrium, Growthand Reform (2006) (0)
External Economic Relations (1992) (0)
A Summary of the Positive Description and Causal Analysis (2013) (0)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: The supply side: delivery-system ownership, organization, and contracting (2001) (0)
Employment and wages (1992) (0)
Experiments in Hungary with Industry-Wide and Economy-Wide Programming (2010) (0)
Reforming the State: Appendix (2001) (0)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: The interaction of supply and demand: pricing, payment, hard budget constraints, and overall health-sector development (2001) (0)
The Rate of Interest in the Long-term Accounting of Economic Efficiency (1965) (0)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: Introduction to part I (2001) (0)
Multi-level programming; a first report on the model and on the experiences of the experimental computations (1968) (0)
The Labor Market: The Mechanism for the Reproduction of Surplus (2013) (0)
Some international experiences (2001) (0)
Foreword (2012) (0)
The Determination of the Optimal Investment Plan for an Industrial Sector by the Use of Linear Programming (1963) (0)
The Market for Goods and Services: The Conceptual Apparatus and Measurement Methods (2013) (0)
18. Synthese – 1988–1993 (2011) (0)
The Separation of The Social Sciences & Cooperation Between Them (2004) (0)
Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: The characteristics of the health sector (2001) (0)
Socialist economies in transition 1 (3) (1990) (0)
The Effect and Assessment of the Surplus Economy (2013) (0)
The “Perfection” of Control (1992) (0)
Convergence-Theory and Historical Reality : Twenty-One Years after Tinbergen's Article (1983) (0)
Reflection of Historical Reality in People’s Minds (2013) (0)
Agazdasagi Vezetes Tulzott Kozpontdsitasa. (1957) (0)
János Kornai THE SYSTEM PARADIGM (2000) (0)
Planning and Direct Bureaucratic Control (1992) (0)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Technical Progress (2013) (0)

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