Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx

Vahabi, Mehrdad

doi:10.1007/s11127-021-00892-z

Public Choice

2021

DOI: 10.1007/s11127-021-00892-z

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Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx

Mehrdad Vahabi

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“…When Amartya Sen's (2020) excellent contribution to the special issue, titled "Marx after Kornai", was published, Janos criticized Sen's views on Marx and advocated 'anti-Marxism' because of Marx's "intellectual responsibility". The exchange between the two longtime friends and eminent economists is rich with insights for understanding Janos's complex relationship with Marx (see Vahabi, 2021c).…”

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“…Moreover, the inconsistences of the half-measures would erode socialist systems, inevitably leading to revolution. (Vahabi, 2021a(Vahabi, , 2021b(Vahabi, , 2021c Kornai was both a true scholar and a committed public intellectual. He never lost his strong sense of observation and remained uninfluenced by doctrinal biases despite his moral commitment to democratic values.…”

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Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai

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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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Janos Kornai’s Intellectual Legacy: Looking into System Paradigm and Soft Budget Constraints

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2024

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Cet article explore l’héritage intellectuel de Kornai en se focalisant sur deux concepts clés constamment présents dans ses travaux, à savoir le paradigme systémique et la contrainte budgétaire lâche (CBL). Ces deux concepts ont constitué les soubassements théoriques des contributions originales de Kornai à l’important sous-champ de la science économique connu durant la guerre froide sous le nom de « systèmes économiques comparés ». Le concept de CBL a eu un impact beaucoup plus fort sur la discipline à l’Ouest. Mais pour les lecteurs chinois, russes, et d’Europe de l’Est, le message principal de Kornai était que les dysfonctionnements du socialisme étaient endémiques, systémiques et que ce dernier ne pouvait être réformé. En fin de compte, la perspective révolutionnaire de Kornai a été inspirée par le paradigme systémique qui, avec la CBL, reflète son héritage théorique à l’Est et à l’Ouest. Dans cet article, je défendrai l’idée selon laquelle la conceptualisation du paradigme systémique chez Kornai a débuté par la neutralité institutionnelle (notamment politique ) et s’est achevé par la centralité institutionnelle (notamment politique ) alors que sa formulation de la CBL a suivi le chemin inverse. En théorisant la CBL, il a commencé par la centralité institutionnelle et a terminé par la neutralité institutionnelle . Je conclurai l’article en suggérant une solution à l’énigme de l’héritage intellectuel de Kornai en suivant deux directions opposées concernant ses deux contributions théoriques principales. JEL Classifications : B3, D5, E1, E7, P2, P3, P5

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Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Janos Kornai and Amartya Sen on Karl Marx

Cited by 3 publications

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In Janos Kornai’s memory

In Janos Kornai’s memory

Introduction: a special issue in honoring Janos Kornai

Janos Kornai’s Intellectual Legacy: Looking into System Paradigm and Soft Budget Constraints

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