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Introduction: A Special Issue in Honouring Janos Kornai

In: The Legacy of Janos Kornai

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  • Mehrdad Vahabi

    (University Sorbonne Paris Nord)

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Janos Kornai is one of the leading economists of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, his interdisciplinary, systemic approach and the Austro-Hungarian convergence on the socialist calculation debate are not explored sufficiently by public choice scholars or by political scientists and economists more generally. The essays published herein try to fill the gaps. In doing so, we start by asking: what is the specific contribution of the eminent economist Janos Kornai to our discipline? The contributions demonstrate that no unique answer to that question is possible. However, despite the diversity of responses, they all converge on one point: Kornai contributes to our understanding of the consequences of an allegedly ‘omnipresent’ state.

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  • Mehrdad Vahabi, 2025. "Introduction: A Special Issue in Honouring Janos Kornai," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: The Legacy of Janos Kornai, chapter 0, pages 31-48, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-83239-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-83239-0_4
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