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George Orwell as a Public Choice Economist

Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

George Orwell is famous for his two final fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two works are sometimes understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been his intention. Orwell's criticisms were directed not...

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János Kornai’s Contributions to Economic Analysis

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The publication of János Kornai’s memoirs, By Force of Thought, provides an excellent opportunity to remind ourselves of Kornai’s great contributions to economic research. This paper discusses both his basic research strategy and some of his main research results. Kornai has usually dealt...

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Karel Kouba and his position in the czech economic thought

Bauer, Michal - In: Politická ekonomie 2005 (2005) 4, pp. 527-544

Karel Kouba belongs among the most prominent Czech economists of the second half of the 20th century. The paper analyzes his major contribution to the Czech economic thought in the context of economic reforms of the Prague Spring of 1968 and of economic transition in 1990s. In the communist era...

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Liberalismo, legge, normatività. Per una rilettura epistemologica del dibattito Croce-Einaudi

Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Italian abstract: In questo saggio intendo rileggere, disarticolare e problematizzare il dibattito Einaudi-Croce sul rapporto tra liberismo e liberalismo muovendo da una prospettiva epistemologica lato sensu costruttivista, volta a mostrare l’insufficienza esplicativa della dicotomia...

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Two Opposing Economic-Literary Critiques of Socialism: George Orwell Versus Eugen Richter and Henry Hazlitt

Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Orwell's famous fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four criticized totalitarian forms of socialism from a Public Choice perspective, assuming that socialism would work as an economic system as long as the proper political institutions were in place to curb the potential for the abuse of...

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George Orwell and the Incoherence of Democratic Socialism

Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

George Orwell's famous fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty Four were intended to advocate democratic socialism by portraying undemocratic forms of socialism as totalitarian. For Orwell, democracy was a political institution which would limit the abuse of power. But there are several...

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By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey

Kornai, Janos - The MIT Press

Janos Kornai, a distinguished Hungarian economist, began his adult life as an ardent believer in socialism and then became a critic of the communist political and economic system. He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian...

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Economic Reform in Russia in 1992: The Government Battles Labor Collectives

Polterovich, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

The economic "battle" that took place in Russia in 1992 consisted of the struggle between the liberally …

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How corruption affects bank lending in Russia

Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2008

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … interest in order to understand the causes of financial underdevelopment and the effects of corruption in Russia. We use … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

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Poland’s Long-term Macroeconomic Performance and Recent Trends: A Comparative Analysis

Kowalski, Tadeusz - In: CESifo Forum 14 (2013) 1, pp. 41-56

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