Legacy of Janos Kornai

Mehrdad Vahabi is Professor of Economics at University Sorbonne Paris Nord.

• Chapter 1. Janos Kornai’s intellectual legacy: An Introduction.- Section 1: General assessment.- Chapter 2. Introduction to Section 1.- Chapter 3. In Janos Kornai’s Memory.- Chapter 4. Introduction: A special issue in honoring Janos Kornai.- Chapter 5. Socialism and Kornai’s revolutionary perspective.- Chapter 6. Janos Kornai’s Intellectual Legacy.- Section 2: Kornai on Marx and Austrian economics.- Chapter 7. Introduction to Section 2.- Chapter 8. Commissioned editorial commentary: exchange between Amartya Sen and Janos Kornai on Karl Marx.- Chapter 9. The Austro-Hungarian Convergence through the Writings of Janos Kornaï.- Section 3: Kornai on Walrasian and Marshallian equilibrium theory.- Chapter 10. Introduction to Section 3.- Chapter 11. Janos Kornai and General Equilibrium Theory.- Chapter 12. The Relevance of the Marshallian Concept of Normality in Interior and in Inertial Dynamics as Revisited by G. Shackle and J. Kornai.- Section 4: Kornai on soft and hard budget constraints.- Chapter 13. Introduction to Section 4.- Chapter 14. The Soft Budget Constraint: A Theoretical Clarification.- Chapter 15. Soft budget constraint reconsidered.- Chapter 16.Soft budget constraints and predatory states.- Chapter 17. A Last Word.