János Kornai citations

János Kornai, né le 21 janvier 1928 à Budapest, est un économiste hongrois. Il est connu pour ses travaux sur l'économie planifiée en Hongrie et dans les pays d'Europe de l'Est. Particulièrement critique de la planification, il considère qu'elle est vouée à n'être qu'une « économie de la pénurie ». Wikipedia

✵ 21. janvier 1928

János Kornai: Citations en anglais

“Schumpeter’s work, his dynamic view of the entrepreneur and creative destruction has had a great impact on me. He indeed wrote a book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, which intended to give a complex analysis of the two systems. But these two books, and a few others (e. g., some of Mises’s and Hayek’s works) are rather exceptional. A typical American textbook on economic systems is not written with the same ambition about capitalism with which I wrote about socialism. It doesn’t give you a general model of capitalism, including the characterization of the political, ideological, and social spheres.”

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János Kornai

János Kornai, in "An Interview with János Kornai : Interviewed by Olivier Blanchard", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1999