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By force of thought : irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey /
"Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then became a critic of the communist political and economic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2006]
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then became a critic of the communist political and economic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theorist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been a journalist, a researcher prohibited from teaching in his home country, and a tenured professor at Harvard. By Force of Thought traces Kornai's lifelong intellectual journey and offers a subjective complement to his academic research." "Kornai's memoir describes his research - including his present-day evaluation of his past work - as well as the social and political environments in which he did his work. The difficulties faced by a critic of central planning in a communist country are made especially vivid by material from newly opened secret police files and informers' reports on his activities. By Force of Thought will be a resource for students of economic thought, socialist systems, and postsocialist transition, and for readers interested in Eastern European intellectual life before, during, and after communism."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 461 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-447) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262277440 0262277441 9781429460927 142946092X 0262612240 9780262612241 1282097997 9781282097995 9786612097997 661209799X |