TY - UNPB
T1 - Transformation in Hungary and (in) Hungarian economics (1978-1996)
AU - Csaba, László
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - It would be difficult to produce an overview of this subject in less than a monograph. The first run in the library of the Budapest University of Economics produced over one thousand entries of monographs and research reports on economic policy and economic system only, excluding articles in scholarly journals, and studies published abroad in collective volumes or journals. Thus the inevitable limitations of the time and subject render this survey incomplete and selective, at times contestable for some. As even an annotated list of bibliography of this size would be impossible to digest, our focus of interest will impose severe limitations on the narrative. First, I shall abstract from what is the numerical majority of the output, i.e. description and commentary of current economic policies, contemporary developments and changes both in the real sphere and in regulation. Second, I shall also abstract from the openly apologetic and also from purely normative pieces, as well as from camouflaged lobbying and discourses over the contemporary ideology, as on planning, entrepreneurial socialism (a form of third way), socialist welfare, proportionality, international value, mathematical formalisation of Marxian schemes, or interdependence. Third, I am forced to avoid reflections on the emerging mainstream, which, owing to its very level of abstraction, could have little bearing on systemic change. This is not to belittle this school, but the choice follows from the task to be tackled. Fourth, I shall not deal with textbooks and sectoral economics, with the partial exception of agriculture. The latter has to do with the peculiar role this area played under goulash communism both domestically and in the foreign trade of Hungary. Fifth, I shall have to abstract largely from what is my own original field of interest, international economics. Thus I won´t touch upon the literature on the energy crises, Comecon, EU, developing countries, or understanding various theoretical schools and the practice in advanced economies, or of international organisations. These will be included only insofar as these have had a direct bearing on systemic change.
AB - It would be difficult to produce an overview of this subject in less than a monograph. The first run in the library of the Budapest University of Economics produced over one thousand entries of monographs and research reports on economic policy and economic system only, excluding articles in scholarly journals, and studies published abroad in collective volumes or journals. Thus the inevitable limitations of the time and subject render this survey incomplete and selective, at times contestable for some. As even an annotated list of bibliography of this size would be impossible to digest, our focus of interest will impose severe limitations on the narrative. First, I shall abstract from what is the numerical majority of the output, i.e. description and commentary of current economic policies, contemporary developments and changes both in the real sphere and in regulation. Second, I shall also abstract from the openly apologetic and also from purely normative pieces, as well as from camouflaged lobbying and discourses over the contemporary ideology, as on planning, entrepreneurial socialism (a form of third way), socialist welfare, proportionality, international value, mathematical formalisation of Marxian schemes, or interdependence. Third, I am forced to avoid reflections on the emerging mainstream, which, owing to its very level of abstraction, could have little bearing on systemic change. This is not to belittle this school, but the choice follows from the task to be tackled. Fourth, I shall not deal with textbooks and sectoral economics, with the partial exception of agriculture. The latter has to do with the peculiar role this area played under goulash communism both domestically and in the foreign trade of Hungary. Fifth, I shall have to abstract largely from what is my own original field of interest, international economics. Thus I won´t touch upon the literature on the energy crises, Comecon, EU, developing countries, or understanding various theoretical schools and the practice in advanced economies, or of international organisations. These will be included only insofar as these have had a direct bearing on systemic change.
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M3 - Discussion paper
T3 - FIT Arbeitsberichte = FIT discussion papers
BT - Transformation in Hungary and (in) Hungarian economics (1978-1996)
PB - Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies
CY - Frankfurt am Main
ER -