Abstract (may include machine translation)
Any comparative study of the history of economic thought of the former centrally planned economies (CPEs) of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) would, no doubt, reveal many similarities and parallels. One such common feature of economic science was a certain discontinuity, a caesura between the pre-1945 past and the newly established ‘Marxist-Leninist' economics. In all countries the communist takeover of governments was followed by the reorganization of academic life according to the Soviet pattern. In Hungary this restructuring was accomplished around 1948–9. At that time a separate Budapest University of Economics was founded where the curricula were based on the Leninist and Stalinist interpretation of Marxian theory. The alumni of this university (which in 1954 was named after Karl Marx) were to form in the following years the body of managers and experts of the centrally planned economy.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Economic thought in communist and post-communist Europe |
Editors | Hans-Jürgen Wagener |
Place of Publication | New York, New York |
Publisher | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |
Pages | 158-212 |
Number of pages | 55 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429231629 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138866232, 9780415179423 |
State | Published - 1998 |