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By force of thought : irregular memoirs of an intellectual journey /

"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 f...

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Main Author: Kornai, János (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Kornai, János.
Economists > Hungary > Biography.
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262277440
0262277441
9781429460927
142946092X
0262612240
9780262612241
1282097997
9781282097995
9786612097997
661209799X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • My family and youth--1928-1944
  • How I became a communist--1945-1947
  • On a communist newspaper--1947-1955
  • Waking up--1953-1955
  • The beginning of a research career--1955-October 23, 1956
  • Revolution and after--October 23, 1956-1959
  • My universities--1957-1959
  • The economic application of mathematical methods--1957-1968
  • Traveling to the West--1963 onward
  • Against the current--1967-1970
  • Institute, university, and academy--1967 onward.

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