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János Kornai

1928 - 2021

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János Kornai (21 January 1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states. He also covered macroeconomic aspects in countries undergoing post-Soviet transition. He was emeritus professor at both Harvard University and Corvinus University of Budapest. Kornai was known to have coined the term shortage economy to reflect perpetual shortages of goods in the centrally-planned command economies of the Eastern Bloc. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. János Kornai is the 180th most popular economist (up from 196th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, János Kornai ranks 180 out of 414. Before him are Henry Sidgwick, Henry George, Jim Rogers, Oliver Hart, Piero Sraffa, and Eli Heckscher. After him are Wilhelm Röpke, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Myron Scholes, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Michel Camdessus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, János Kornai ranks 170. Before him are Yaacov Agam, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Fredrik Barth, Henri Debehogne, Cannonball Adderley, and Joseph Kittinger. After him are Wolfhart Pannenberg, Juris Hartmanis, Harold Prince, Humberto Maturana, Nancy Marchand, and Victor Stănculescu. Among people deceased in 2021, János Kornai ranks 159. Before him are Igor Oistrakh, Anna Chromý, Terry Cooper, Willy van der Kuijlen, Ned Beatty, and Kurt Westergaard. After him are Joan Didion, Michael Apted, Olympia Dukakis, Charles Grodin, Humberto Maturana, and Renée Simonot.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, János Kornai ranks 253 out of 1,077. Before him are Dora Pejačević (1885), András Hegedüs (1922), George Szell (1897), Jenő Hubay (1858), Géza Maróczy (1870), and Miklós Kállay (1887). After him are László Lovász (1948), Ferenc Plattkó (1898), George Tabori (1914), Fritz Reiner (1888), József Zakariás (1924), and Anton Bernolák (1762).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Hungary

Among economists born in Hungary, János Kornai ranks 2. Before him are John Harsanyi (1920). After him are Nicholas Kaldor (1908), Eugen Varga (1879), and László Andor (1966).

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