BY FORCE OF THOUGHT:
IRREGULAR MEMOIRS OF AN INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY
MIT PRESS, 2007.
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    Hungarian Quarterly, 2006.Vol.47, No.183. pp.131-149
  • The Montias Case
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007. No 35, pp. 438-442
  • The Holocaust Trauma
    The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation website

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    Campbell, Robert (June 2009)
    Comperative Economic Studies 51: 271-273


    Chilosi, Alberto (September 18, 2007)
    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, Paper No. 5261
    Also at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5261/01/MPRA_paper_5261.pdf


    Cole, Daniel H. (November 30, 2009)
    Law, Economics and Cycling-blog, http://cyclingprof.blogspot.com


    Corneo, Giacomo (August 20, 2007)
    Journal of Economics 92/1: 100-101


    Dent, Bob (March 2007)
    A look into a gifted economist's mind
    The Budapest Times


    Desai, Padma (November 24/25, 2007)
    How the east was won
    Financial Times Magazine


    Goddard, Steve (July 16, 2007)
    Book Alert / By Force of Thought
    http://www.historywire.com/2007/07/book-alert-by-f.html


    Hollander, Paul (March 7, 2007)
    The Internal Contradictions of Hungary
    The New York Sun


    Hollander, Paul (February, 2008)
    Political Studies Review 6/1: 76-77


    Kadvany, John (September 2008)
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought 30/1: 413-416

    Khatkhate, Deena (March 28, 2009)
    Economic and Political Weekly 44/13: 33-37

    Kroll, Heidi (Winter, 2008)
    Journal of Cold War Studies 10/1: 154-156


    Leeson, Peter T.
    We're All Austrians Now: János Kornai and the Austrian School of Economics
    Or at http://www.peterleeson.com/We_re_All_Austrians_Now.pdf
    In print:
    Leeson, Peter T. (2008): Kornai’s By Force of Thought – We're all Austrians now: János Kornai and the Austrian school of economics. In: Samuels, Warren J. - Jeff E. Biddle - Ross B. Emmett (eds.): Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: A research annual 26/1. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 209-219.


    Lindbeck, Assar (December, 2007)
    János Kornai's Contributions to Economic Analysis
    IFN Working Paper No. 724


    Ofer, Gur (2009)
    Israel Economic Review 7/1: 177-185

    Péter, László (2008)
    Slovo 20/1: 54-56

    Roland, Gérard (2008)
    Journal of Economic Literature 46/1: 145-150.

    Rose, Richard (2009)
    Czech Sociological Review 45/6: 1311-1312.

    Rose, Richard (November 19, 2009)
    The Times Higher Education, page 47.

    Rosser, J. Barkley (September 6, 2007)
    Or at http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2007/09/by-force-of-thought-memoir-of-janos.html


    Rubenstein, Joshua (January 30, 2007)
    Critic Behind the Curtain
    The Wall Street Journal


    Skidelsky, Robert (May 31, 2007)
    Winning a Gamble with Communism
    The New York Review of Books 54/9


    Stark, David (October, 2007)
    Opportunities of constraints: A sociologist's reflections on János Kornai's By Force of Thought
    Theory and Society


    Throsby, David (February 8, 2008)
    Opposition by numbers
    Times Literary Supplement, page 30


    Wagener, Hans-Jürgen (2008)
    Economic Systems 32/3: 303-306

    Wang, Yijiang (2007)
    China Economic Review 18


    Warsh, David (May 20, 2007)
    Kornai's Choice
    Or at http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2007.05.20/249.html


    Weintraub, E. Roy (2008)
    History of Political Economy 40/ 4: 818-719.
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