TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction to the Kornai 90 Symposium
AU - Piroska, Dóra
AU - Rosta, Miklós
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Millennium Economics Ltd 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This introduction to the Kornai 90 Symposium briefly overviews János Kornai's rich scholarship with the aim of highlighting those features of Kornai's work that are of particular interest to institutional economists. Above all, the introduction browses through some of his main works, such as Overcentralization, Anti-Equilibrium, and Economics of Shortage, with a special emphasis on the soft budget constraint, The Socialist System, and Kornai's latest writings on Hungary's U-turn. We invoke the political contexts of these works to suggest their impact on Kornai's diverse questions, changing methods, and the constraint they put on his conclusions as well as on the reception of the research results. In the end, we underline that Kornai was an independent scholar with an interest in a variety of methods and approaches, who nevertheless, or maybe consequently, had a remarkable impact on the thinking of social scientists and practitioners alike. The four papers presented in the symposium are testimonies to the living impact of Kornai's oeuvre on institutionalist analysis today.
AB - This introduction to the Kornai 90 Symposium briefly overviews János Kornai's rich scholarship with the aim of highlighting those features of Kornai's work that are of particular interest to institutional economists. Above all, the introduction browses through some of his main works, such as Overcentralization, Anti-Equilibrium, and Economics of Shortage, with a special emphasis on the soft budget constraint, The Socialist System, and Kornai's latest writings on Hungary's U-turn. We invoke the political contexts of these works to suggest their impact on Kornai's diverse questions, changing methods, and the constraint they put on his conclusions as well as on the reception of the research results. In the end, we underline that Kornai was an independent scholar with an interest in a variety of methods and approaches, who nevertheless, or maybe consequently, had a remarkable impact on the thinking of social scientists and practitioners alike. The four papers presented in the symposium are testimonies to the living impact of Kornai's oeuvre on institutionalist analysis today.
KW - János Kornai
KW - Symposium
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072102990&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1744137419000444
DO - 10.1017/S1744137419000444
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85072102990
SN - 1744-1374
VL - 16
SP - 41
EP - 47
JO - Journal of Institutional Economics
JF - Journal of Institutional Economics
IS - 1
ER -