NEWS, EVENTS
Kornai's memoirs available in Slovak
János Kornai's memoirs By Force of Thought has been published by Kalligram. The book was presented in Bratislava (Pozsony) on November 15 by renowned Slovakian economists: Slovakian finance minister Ivan Miklós, Central European University Budapest professor Julius Horváth, and Brunel University London professor Jan Fidrmuc.
Slovak is the ninth language of publication for Kornai's memoirs, following the Hungarian, English, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Vietnamese, Chinese and German editions.
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In the June issue of Baltic Worlds an interview "24 hours is a long time in revolutions: János Kornai on taking risks and ending up on opposing sides" can be read here.
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“Honorary Professor Emeritus” at Corvinus University
Corvinus University of Budapest has awarded János Kornai the title of “Honorary Professor Emeritus.” The certificate was presented by Rector Tamás Mészáros at the opening plenary session of the April 26 conference of the Faculty of Economics of the university. Read János Kornai's talk in Hungarian here.
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Interview with János Kornai
In a recently published book of interviews dicussing the European situation and problems of mainstream challenging "heterodox" schools in economics (Rosser, J. Barkley – Richard P. F. Holt – David Collander (eds.), European Economics at a Crossroads, 2010. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) the editors asked two scholars, Nobel laureate German professor Richard Selten and János Kornai, to overview and evaluate the interviews. The Kornai interview is available here.
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