[spectre] János Kornai : Hungary's U-turn

[Janos Sugar]

János Kornai, the renowned Hungarian economist, 
Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard 
University and Corvinus University of Budapest, 
has written a new paper about the situation in 
Hungary. He notes that the main direction of the 
changes up to 2010 was progress toward democracy, 
the rule of law, and a market economy based on 
the dominance of private ownership. Hungary is 
the first, and so far the only, member of the 
group of 15 post-socialist EU member countries to 
execute a sharp U-turn and set off resolutely in 
the opposite direction. The country has shifted 
from democracy to autocracy. The final version of 
this paper will be published in the October issue 
of Journal of Democracy. I'm grateful to 
Professor Kornai for allowing me to share this 
prepublication working paper with the readers of 
Hungarian Spectrum.
https://hungarianspectrum.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/janos-kornai-hungarys-u-turn/