JÁNOS KORNAI
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
BOOKS
PAPERS
2016 “So what is Capital in the Twenty-First Century? Some notes on Piketty’s book” 2016. Capitalism and Society, vol. 11/1, 2-35. Also in Hungarian, in Polish, in Spanish.
2015 “About the past and future of comparative economics (Foreword)” 2015. Journal of Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 10, 1-10. Also in Hungarian, in Chinese. “Hungary’s U-turn” 2015. Capitalism and Society, vol. 10/1, 1-24. Republished in English: Journal of Democracy, vol. 26/3, 34-48, and as „Shifting away from democracy: Hungary’s U-turn”, Public Finance and Management, vol. 15/3, 172-202. Also in Hungarian, in Romanian, in Polish, in Serbian, in Latvian, in Russian, in Romanian.
2014 “The soft budget constraint: An introductory study to Volume IV of the life’s work series” 2014. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 64: 25-79. Also in Hungarian, in Polish. “Threatening dangers” 2014. Available online. Also in Hungarian, in Chinese, in Polish, in Romanian, in Vietnamese. “Can China set us an example?” 2014. Available online. Also in Hungarian, in Vietnamese.
2013 “Centralization and market reform: An introductory study to Volume III of the life’s work series” 2013. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 63/3: 335–366. Also in Hungarian. “Breaking promises: The Hungarian experience” 2013. In Aльманах Центрa Исследованный Экономической Kультуры (Almanach of the Research Center of Economic Culture), ed. Danila Raskov, Moscow, Gaidar Institute Press, 210-243. Republished in English in 2016. Also in Hungarian, in Romanian, in Chinese, in Estonian.
2012 “What Economics of shortage and The socialist system have to say to the (Hungarian) readers today: An introductory study to the first two volumes of the life’s work series”, in English 2012. Acta Oeconomica, vol. 62/3: 365-384. Original 5.125 in Hungarian. "Centralization and the capitalist market economy.” Népszabadság online, February 1, 2012. (Translation of "Központosítás és kapitalista piacgazdaság", in Hungarian, Népszabadság, January 28, 2012.) Republished in English: CESifo Forum, vol. 13/1, 2012, 47-59. Also in Vietnamese 2012, in German 2012. A somewhat shortened version in Polish 2012.
2011 "Taking stock"
2010 “Where is the line between independent economic analysis and active policy making? The example of the independent fiscal councils” “Innovation and Dynamism: Interaction between Systems and Technical Progress” “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: Reflections on the changes following the collapse of communism”.
2009 „Marx through the eyes of an East-European intellectual“. „The soft budget constraint syndrome and the global financial crisis: Some warnings from an East European economist”. “The Soft Budget Constraint Syndrome in the Hospital Sector”. “Socialism and the Market: Conceptual Clarification”. “Introduction: Great Changes in the World and in Economics – Corruption, Development and Institutional Design”.
2008 “Joys and Woes of a Researcher.” Some system-specific features of capitalism, “Coffee and Tea: Some Comments on Reforming the System of Health Insurance in Hungary".
2007 “Disciplines of Social Sciences: Separation or Cooperation”.
2006 “Equilibrium, Growth and Reform“. “The Great Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe: Success and Disappointment”.
2004 “What Can Countries Embarking on Post-Socialist Transformation Learn from the Experiences so far?“
2003 “Understanding the Soft Budget Constraint“. “Honesty and Trust in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition. Some ideas arising from the 'Honesty and Trust' research at Collegium Budapest“, 2003. Also in Hungarian, Russian, and Chinese.
2001 “Hardening the Budget Constraint: The Experience of the Post-socialist Countries.” “Choice and Solidarity: The Health Sector in Eastern Europe and Proposals for Reform.” "The Borderline between the Spheres of Authority of the Citizen and the State. Recommendations for the Hungarian Health Reform." “Ten Years After 'The Road to a Free Economy': The Author's Self-Evaluation.”
2000 “The System Paradigm.” In Paradigms of Social Change: Modernization, Development, Transformation, Evolution. 2000. Edited by Waltraud Schekle, Wolf-Hagen Krauth, Martin Kohli and Georg Elwert. Frankfurt/New York: Campurs Verlag. New York: St. Martin’s. pp. 111-33. Also in Hungarian, Chinese and Russian. “Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary.” In Lord Dahrendorf and Yehuda Elkana, eds. The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, Budapest: CEU Press, 2000. Also in Hungarian. “Is post-communist health spending unusual? A comparison with established market economies,” Co-author: John McHale. The Economics of Transition. 2000, vol. 8/2: 369-399. Also in Hungarian. “What the Change of the System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. Winter 2000, 14(1): 27-42. Also in Hungarian, Romanian and Russian. (Reprint 2009: Macro Marketing. Vols. 1-4. Eds. Shapiro, Stanley J. – Mark Tadajewski – Clifford J. Shultz, 2009. London: Sage. Vol. 3:289-304.)
1999 “Welfare after Communism.” London: The Social Market Foundation. Centre for Post-Collectivist Studies. December 1999. Also in Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, and Croatian.
1998 “Tax awareness and reform of the welfare state: Hungarian survey results,” co-authors: László Csontos and Tóth István György. Economics of Transition, 1998, 6/2: 287-312. Also in Hungarian, and Bulgarian. “The General Trends and the Philosophy of Public Finance Reform,” in Public Finance Reform during the Transition. The Experience of Hungary. Eds.: Bokros, Lajos and Jean-Jacques Dethier, pp. 25-44. Washington D.C.: The World Bank. 1998. “From Socialism to Capitalism: What is meant by the ‘Change of System’?” London: The Social Market Foundation, Centre for Post-Collectivist Studies, June 1998. Also in Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Polish. “The Place of the Soft Budget Constraint Syndrome in Economic Theory.” Journal of Comparative Economics, March, 1998, 26/1: 11-17. Also in Hungarian. “Legal Obligation, Non-Compliance and Soft Budget Constraint.” Entry for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. Ed.: Peter Newman. New York: Macmillan, 1998. pp. 533-539. Also in Hungarian. “The Citizen and the State: Reform of the Welfare System”. Emergo, Winter, 1998, pp. 2-14.
1997 “Reforming the Welfare State in Post-Socialist Societies” World Development, 25/8: 1183-1186, 1997. “Reform of the Welfare Sector in the Post-Communist Countries: A Normative Approach”, in Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies. Eds: Joan Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee Walker. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 1997, pp. 272-298. Also in Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, and Chinese. “The Reform of the Welfare State and Public Opinion”, The American Economic Review. May, 1997, 87/2: 339-343. “The Political Economy of the Hungarian Stabilization and Austerity Program”, in Macroeconomic Stabilization in Transition Economies. Eds: Mario I. Blejer and Marko Skreb. Cambridge University Press. 1997. pp. 172-203. Also in Hungarian, and Hebrew. “Adjustment without Recession: A Case Study of Hungarian Stabilization”, in Lessons from the Economic Transition. Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. Ed.: Salvatore Zecchini. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, OECD, 1997, pp. 123-152. Also in Hungarian, in Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, and Chinese.
1996 “Paying the Bill for Goulash-Communism: Hungarian Development and Macro Stabilization in Political-Economy Perspective”, Social Research, Winter 1996, 63/4: 943-1040. Also in Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, German, and French. “Hardening of the Budget Constraint under the Postsocialist System”, Japan and the World Economy, 1996, 8: 135-151.
1995 “The Dilemmas of Hungarian Economic Policy”, in Lawful Revolution in Hungary, 1989-94. Eds.: Béla K. Király and András Bozóki. Boulder: Social Science Monographs, Highland Lakes: Atlantic Research and Publications and New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, pp. 323-349. Also in Polish, and Romanian. Read the manuscript here. “Lasting Growth as the Top Priority: Macroeconomic Tensions and Government Economic Policy in Hungary”, Acta Oeconomica, 1995, 47/1-2: 1-38. Also in Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, German, Bulgarian, and Polish. "Eliminating the Shortage Economy. A General Analysis and Examination of the Developments in Hungary”, Economics of Transition, 1995, 3/1: 13-37, 2:149-168. Also in Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, Romanian, Chinese, Russian, and Slovak.
1994 “Transformational Recession: The Main Causes”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1994, 19(3): 39-63.
1993 “Transformational Recession: A General Phenomenon Examined through the Example of Hungary’s Development”, in Economie Appliquée, 1993, 46/2: 181-227. Also in Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, French, Polish, Romanian, and Russian. “The Evolution of Financial Discipline under the Postsocialist System”, Kyklos, Fall 1993, 46/3: 315-336. Also in Hungarian, Bulgarian, German, Romanian, Chinese, Russian, and Slovak. “The Soviet Union’s Road to a Free Economy”, in The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Ed.: Grethe B. Peterson, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 14, 1993: 42-68. Also in Hungarian. “Market Socialism Revisited”, in: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Ed.: Grethe B. Peterson, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 14, 1993, pp. 3-41. Also in Hungarian. “Postsocialist Transition: An Overall Survey”, European Review, 1993, 1/1: 53-64. Also in Hungarian, German, Chinese and Russian.
1992 “The Postsocialist Transition and the State: Reflections in the Light of Hungarian Fiscal Problems”, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 1992, 82/2: 1-21. Also in Hungarian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Polish, Romanian, and Slovak. “The Principles of Privatization in Eastern Europe”, De Economist, 1992, 140/2: 153-176. Also in Hungarian, and Russian.
1991 “Stabilization and Economic Transition in Hungary: The Next Two Years”. Trade Theory and Economic Reform. North, South, and East. Essays in Honor of Béla Balassa. Eds.: Jaime de Melo and André Sapir. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991, pp. 307-326.
1990 “My Days as a Naïve Reformer”, The New Hungarian Quarterly, Autumn 1990, 31/119: 120-128. Also in Hungarian.
1989 “The Affinity between Ownership Forms and Coordination Mechanisms. The Common Experience of Reform in Socialist Countries”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1990, 4(3): 131-147. Also in Hungarian, Croatian, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Italian. “Some Lessons of the Hungarian Experience for the Chinese Reformers”, Market Reforms in Socialist Societies. Comparing China and Hungary. Ed.: Peter Van Ness. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989, pp. 75-106. “On the Responsibilities of Economic Theorists, Advisers and Politicians”, New Hungarian Quarterly, Summer 1989, 30/114: 170-177. Also in Hungarian, and Russian.
1988 “Individual Freedom and Reform of the Socialist Economy”, European Economic Review, 1988, 32/2-3: 233-267. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
1987 “The Dual Dependence of the State-Owned Firm in Hungary”, in: China’s Industrial Reform. Eds.: G. Tidrick and Chen Jiyuan. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 317-338. Also in Chinese. "The Softness of Budgetary Constraints—An Analysis of Enterprise Data", co-author: Ágnes Matits. Eastern European Economics, 1987, Vol. 25/4: 1-33. Also in Hungarian. In English also in 1984.
1986 “The Chinese Economic Reform—as Seen by Hungarian Economists”, co-author: Zsuzsa Dániel. Acta Oeconomica, 1986, 36/3-4: 289-305. Also in Hungarian and Chinese. “The Hungarian Reform Process: Visions, Hopes and Reality”, Journal of Economic Literature, Dec. 1986, 24/4: 1687-1737. Also in Hungarian, Polish, Chinese, Estonian, Russian, and Spanish. “State-Owned Firm, Bureaucracy and Market: Hungarian Experience”, Third Chintaman Deshmukh Memorial Lecture, 1986, Bombay: Reserve Bank of India. “The Soft Budget Constraint”, Kyklos, 1986, 39/1: 3-30. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, and Spanish.
1985 “Gomulka on the Soft Budget Constraint: A Reply”, Economics of Planning, 1985, 19/2: 49-55. Also in Hungarian and Japanese. “On the Explanatory Theory of Shortage. Comments on Two Articles by K. A. Soós”, Acta Oeconomica, 32/3-4: 145-164. Also in Hungarian. “Investment, Efficiency and Shortage: A Macro-Growth Model”, co-author: András Simonovits. Matekon, 1985-1986, 22/2: 3-29. Also in Hungarian.
1984 “Bureaucratic and Market Coordination”, Osteuropa Wirtschaft, 1984, 29/4: 316-319. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, Estonian and Russian. “Softness of the Budget Constraint—An Analysis Relying on Data of Firms”, co-author: Ágnes Matits. Acta Oeconomica, 1984, 32/3-4: 223-249. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, and Chinese. “Descriptive-Explanatory Models of the Socialist Economy: Review of a Research Direction”, System Research, 1984, 1/2: 135-143. “Reproduction of Shortage on the Hungarian Car Market”, co-authors: Zsuzsa Kapitány and Judit Szabó. Soviet Studies, Apr. 1984, 3662: 236-256. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, and Chinese.
1983 “Comments on the Present State and Prospects of the Hungarian Economic Reform”, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1983, 7/3: 225-252. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, Chinese, and French. “Paternalism, Buyers’ and Sellers’ Market”, co-author: Jörgen W. Weibull. Mathematical Social Sciences, 1983, 7/2: 153-169. Also in Hungarian and Japanese. “Equilibrium as a Category of Economics”, Acta Oeconomica, 1983, 30(2): 145-159. Also in Hungarian, Japanese, and Estonian. “The Health of Nations: Reflections on the Analogy Between the Medical Sciences and Economics”, Kyklos, 1983, 36/2, 191-212. Also in Hungarian, Portugese, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.
1982 “Adjustment to Price and Quantity Signals in a Socialist Economy”, Économie Appliquée, 1982, 35/3: 505-524. Also in Japanese and Chinese.
1981 “Some Properties of the Eastern European Growth Pattern”, World Development, Sept./Oct. 1981, 9/9-1): 965-970. Also in Chinese. “On the Difficulties and Deficiencies of Mathematical Economic Research in Hungary”, Acta Oeconomica, 1981, 26/1-2: 175-198. Also in Hungarian and Estonian. “Stock-Signal Model Regulated From a Normal Path”, co-author: András Simonovits, in: Non-Price Control. Eds.: János Kornai and Béla Martos. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1981, pp. 223-245. Also in Hungarian. “Control by Order Signals”, co-author: András Simonovits, in: Non-Price Control. Eds.: János Kornai and Béla Martos. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1981, pp. 267-279. Also in Hungarian. “Control by Norms”, in: Non-Price Control. Eds.: János Kornai and Béla Martos. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1981, pp. 113-127. Also in Hungarian. “Vegetative Control: The First Step”, co-author: Béla Martos, in: Non-Price Control. Eds.: János Kornai and Béla Martos. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1981, pp. 57-80. Also in Hungarian and Japanese.
1980 “‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Budget Constraint”, Acta Oeconomica, 1980, 25/3-4: 231-246. Also in Hungarian, Portuguese, French and Chinese. “The Dilemmas of a Socialist Economy: The Hungarian Experience”, Geary Lecture, Cambridge Journal of Economics, June 1980, 4/2: 147-157. Also in Hungarian, German, Polish, Japanese, Estonian, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.
1979 “Appraisal of Project Appraisal”, in: Economics and Human Welfare: Essays in Honour of Tibor Scitovsky. Ed.: M. J. Boskin. New York: Academic Press, 1979, pp. 75-99. Also in French. “Resource-Constrained Versus Demand-Constrained Systems”, Econometrica, July 1979, 47/4: 801-819. Also in Hungarian, Portuguese, Chinese and Spanish. “The Oeuvre of Kenneth J. Arrow”, Acta Oeconomica, 1979, 23/1-2: 193-203. Also in Hungarian.
1978 “The Normal State of the Market in a Shortage Economy: A Queue Model”. Co-author: Jörgen W. Weibull.
1977 “Decentralized Control Problems in Neumann-Economies”, co-author: András Simonovits. Journal of Economic Theory, Feb. 1977, 14/1: 44-67. Also in Hungarian and Russian.
1976 “Pressure and Suction on the Market”, in: Economic Analysis of the Soviet Type System. Ed.: Judith Thornton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 191-215. Also in Hungarian, Russian and Japanese. “The Measurement of Shortage”, Acta Oeconomica, 1976, 16/3-4: 321-344. Also in Hungarian and Japanese.
1975 “Mathematical Programming Models in Industrial Development Planning”, Industrialization and Productivity, UNIDO Bulletin, New York, UN, 1975, 22. “Models and Policy: The Dialogue Between Model Builder and Planner”, in: Economy-Wide Models and Development Planning. Eds.: Charles R. Blitzer, Peter B. Clark and Lance Taylor. London: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 13-31.
1973 “Economic System Theory and General Equilibrium Theory”, in: Criticism of Contemporary Western Economic Theories. Selected papers presented to International Conference “New trends in contemporary bourgeois economics”, 1-4, June, 1970, Budapest, Part II. Budapest: Institute of Economics Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1973, Studies 7. pp. 7-32. Also in Hungarian. “Some Intersectoral and Intertemporal Choice Problems: Hungarian Experience in Long-Term Planning”, in: Economic Structure and Development. Eds.: H. C. Bos, H. Linnemann and P. de Wolff. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1973, pp. 201-214. Also in Spanish. “Autonomous Control of the Economic System”, co-author: Béla Martos. Econometrica, May 1973, 41/3: 509-528. Also in Hungarian. “Thoughts on Multi-Level Planning Systems”, in: Multi-Level Planning: Case Studies in Mexico. Eds.: Louis M. Goreux and Allan S. Manne. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1973, pp. 521-551.
1972 “Macrofunctions Computed on the Basis of Plan Models”, co-authors: Zsuzsa Dániel and Judit Rimler. Acta Oeconomica, 1972, 8/4: 375-406. Also in Hungarian.
1971 “Economic System Theory and General Equilibrium Theory”, Acta Oeconomica, 1971, 6/4: 297-317. Also in Hungarian. “Plan Sounding”, co-authors: Zsuzsa Dániel, Anna Jónás and Béla Martos. Economics of Planning, 1971, 11/1-2: 31-58. Also in Hungarian. “Economic Systems Theory and General Equilibrium Theory”, Acta Oeconomica, 1971, 6/4: 297-317. Also in Hungarian, French, and Japanese.
1970 “A General Descriptive Model of Planning Processes”, Economics of Planning, 1970, 10/1-2: 1-19. Also in Spanish.
1969 “Multi-Level Programming: A First Report on the Model and on Experimental Computations”, European Economic Review, Fall 1969, 1(1): 134-191. Also in Hungarian and Italian. “Man-Machine Planning”, Economics of Planning, 1969, 9/3: 209-234. Also in Hungarian and Spanish.
1967 “Application of an Aggregate Programming Model in Five Year Planning”, co-author: Zsuzsa Ujlaki. Acta Oeconomica, 1967, 2/4: 327-344. Also in Hungarian and Russian. “Mathematical Programming of Long-Term Plans in Hungary”, in: Activity Analysis in the Theory of Growth and Planning. Eds.: Edmond Malinvaud and M. O. L. Bacharach. London, Melbourne, Toronto and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1967, pp. 211-231. “Hungary: The Programming Model of the National Economy”, in: Macroeconomic Models for Planning and Policy-Making. Geneva: UN, ECE, 1967.
1966 “Experiments in Hungary with Industry-Wide and Economy-Wide Programming”, co-author: Béla Martos. In: Mathematical Optimization in Economics. Ed.: Bruno de Finetti. Roma: Centro Internacionale Matematico Estive, 1966, pp. 169-194.
1965 “Mathematical Programming as a Tool in Drawing Up the Five-Year Economic Plan”, Economics of Planning, 1965, 5/3: 3-18. Also in Russian and Serbian. “Two-Level Planning”, co-author: Tamás Lipták. Econometrica, Jan. 1965, 33/1: 141-169. Also in Russian and Polish.
1963 “The Determination of the Optimum Investment Plan for an Industrial Sector by the Use of Linear Programming”, Eastern European Economy, 1963, 1/4: 44-56. Also in Hungarian and Polish.
1962 “The Application of the Input-Output Table to Determine the Optimum Development Program of the Aluminium Industry”, co-author: Béla Martos. In: Input-output Tables, Their Compilation and Use. Ed.: Ottó Lukács. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1962, pp. 224-234. Also in Hungarian. “Mathematical Investigation of Some Economic Effects of Profit Sharing in Socialist Firms”, co-author: Tamás Lipták. Econometrica, Jan. 1962, 30/1: 140-161. |
