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Overcentralization in Economic Administration: A Critical Analysis Based on Experience in Hungarian Light Industry

Autor János Kornai Traducere de John Knapp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iun 2023
Overcentralization in Economic Administration (Oxford, 1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that openly criticized socialist central planning. In this work the distinguished economist János Kornai begins a lifelong study of the economic organization of centrally planned economies. Professor Kornai's aim in this book was to observe the reality of the working socialist system, and to draw conclusions that were not distorted by the laws of Marxist political economy. He provided a lucid and coherent account of conditions, along with normative recommendations which influenced the Hungarian reform process, culminating in the economic changes of 1968. Professor Kornai identified several systematic failures of the centrally planned economy and gave a prescient account of weak economic performance and eventual disintegration. His argument for radical rather than partial change makes this book essential reading for those interested in the economics of transition in Eastern Europe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192894427
ISBN-10: 0192894420
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Review from previous edition Kornai found little evidence of comprehensive planning. Instead, he determined that the planning system consisted of quarterly gross output orders that could readily be manipulated by managers and had to be fulfilled at any price. Kornai's Overcentralization already contained the seeds of Kornai's later key findings of the dysfunctionalities of socialist planning; namely, soft budget constraints and the shortage economy. Kornai's most important finding was largely overlooked throughout the socialist world-that the planned economy could not be reformed by partial measures.
Kornai's interest in methodology arose from the inadequacy of existing economic theory, both Marxist-Leninist and Western mainstream, to help solve major topical economic problems. He used the methodology that he developed to analyse concrete economic issues. The major economic problem that he analysed was the reform of the bureaucratic-command system in his native Hungary. His PhD thesis, which was published in English translation as Overcentralization in economic administration was a detailed account of some problems of that system. He was involved in plans to reform it. However, it became very obvious that there was no economic theory that could provide guidance for reformers. Some people were attracted to market socialism, but Kornai rejected it both in theory and as a basis for improving the Hungarian economic system.
The Hungarian Janos Kornai is the most famous, and certainly the most influential, economist to have emerged from postwar Communist Europe. His reputation is based on three books, Overcentralization, Economics of Shortage, and The Socialist System, which knocked away the intellectual foundations of the publicly owned, bureaucratically planned economy.

Notă biografică

János Kornai was Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and Corvinus University of Budapest.