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Planning, Shortage, and Transformation: Essays in Honor of Janos Kornai

By (author) Janos Kornai





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The three major themes of J?nos Kornai's work reflected in the title of this book--planning, shortage, and transition, or transformation--figure prominently in the essays. After a philosophical introduction by Edmond Malinvaud, the book is divided into three sections: Markets and Organizations, Theory of Transition, and The Transitional Experience.J?nos Kornai is one of the world's leading experts on the economics of socialism and transition. An early advocate of reform in Hungary, he has written penetrating analyses of centrally planned economies and their transformation to market-oriented systems. This volume is being published in celebration of Kornai's seventieth birthday.Contributors: Abram Bergson, Sharad Bhandari, Bernard Chavance, Mathias Dewatripont, Jacques Dr?ze, Michael Ellman, Richard Ericson, Istv?n R. G?bor, Paul Hare, David M. Kemme, J?nos K?ll?, Georges Korsun, M?ri Lack?, Marie Lavigne, Edmond Malinvaud, B?la Martos, Eric S. Maskin, Peter Murrell, Yingyi Qian, Richard Quandt, John Roemer, G?rard Roland, Jeffrey Sachs, Andr's Simonovits, Robert Solow, Wim Swaan, J?rgen Weibull, Martin Weitzman, Wing Thye Woo, Chenggang Xu.

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Publisher | MIT Press Ltd
Published date | 14 May 2014
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ISBN | 978-0-5853-0930-9
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BISAC | business & economics / development / economic development


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