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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Why The Late Janos Kornai Did Not Get The Nobel Prize Apparently yesterday Janos Kornai died in Budapest at the age of 94. He was the greatest analyst of the socialist system there was. Indeed, his personal life saw the full history of it in in his native land of Hungary, where, being Jewish, he […] The post Why The Late Janos Kornai Did Not Get The Nobel Prize appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »How China became a market economy–Review of Julian Gewirtz’s “Unlikely Partners”
A view of the development of market socialism with Chinese characteristics. Julian Gewirtrz’s “Unlikely Partners” charts, with an extraordinary attention to detail, these world-historic decisions and focuses on the role that foreign economists played in these early stages of China’s transformation. But while the declared focus of the book is on the foreign-to-Chinese interaction and cooperation, with the high point (extremely well described) being a week-long cruise-seminar in August 1985...
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