EVENTS ON THE OCCASION OF JÁNOS KORNAI'S 90tTH BIRTHDAY

"The importance of János Kornai’s research for understanding

the changing role of the state in the economy"

International conference and related events

Corvinus University of Budapest, February 20-22, 2018

Conference website

Conference program (or here)

Talks and related materials

-- Philippe Aghion (Collège de France): Rethinking Growth after Janos Kornai -- text, slides

-- Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire): Mythical markets -- text, slides

-- János Kornai's closing remarks -- in English, video (or here); the talk in Hungarian: Közgazdasági Szemle or here,

-- Eric Maskin (Nobel Laureate, Harvard University): The soft-budget constraint: A theoretical review

-- Yingyi Qian (Tsinghua University): Surplus, innovation and the system

-- Jinglian Wu: Speech in honor of János Kornai -- transcript (the original recording is available from the editor of this site, upon request)

Related events

On February 20, Adam Michnik (Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland) and János Kis (CEU, Hungary) held a roundtable discussion on "Transition and U-turn in Central-Europe," led by András Mink (OSA Archive).

Photos, videos

-- Adam Michnik and János Kornai greeting each other

-- János Kis and János Kornai greeting each other

-- János Kornai and Eric Maskin

-- Miklós Rosta and Attila Chikán (in the background: Geoffrey Hodgson)

-- Closing remarks by János Kornai: transcript, video

-- János Kornai and Ferenc Kőszeg

-- David Daokui Li, Chenggang Xu, Yiyiang Wang, Eric Maskin, János Kornai, Yingyi Qian and Chong-en Bai