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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rosta, Miklós
• Piroska, Dóra
• Dóra Piroska
• Miklós Rosta

Titel

The Theories of János Kornai and a Less-known Hungarian Economist, Ferenc Jánossy, on Unbalanced Economic Growth

Ist Teil von

• Systems, Institutions, and Values in East and West, 2020, p.51-68

Ort / Verlag

Hungary: Central European University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although it may sound surprising today, the pace of growth in Hungary during the 1960s appeared to be too high to at least two far-sighted theoretical economists. This happened at a time when it was considered a trivial fact by virtually all economists that the higher the growth rate, the better it was for everyone. The two main heroes of the present paper, János Kornai (b. 1928) and Ferenc Jánossy (1914–1997), were then about the same age and knew each other. They were both fairly renowned in academic circles, but both of them belonged to the “politically tolerated” category