What is János Kornai?
{{Infobox economist |name=János Kornai |school_tradition = [[Institutional economics]]<ref>James Wilkerson, Robert Parkin (eds.), ''Modalities of Change: The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia'', Berghahn Books, 2012, p. 7.</ref> |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1928|1|21}} |birth_place = [[Budapest]], [[Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)|Hungary]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|10|18|1928|1|21}} |death_place = |nationality = Hungary |contributions = [[Theory of two-level planning]]<br>[[Shortage economy]] |influences = |influenced = |repec_prefix = e |repec_id = pko198}} [[File:Janos Kornai 2005.jpg|thumb|János Kornai, 2005]] '''János Kornai''' (21 January 1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Hungarian [[economist]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Andreff |first=Wladimir |date=2020 |title=Janos Kornai: a non-mainstream pathway from economic planning to disequilibrium economics |journal=Public Choice |volume=187 |issue=1–2 |pages=63–83 |language=en |doi=10.1007/s11127-020-00813-6 |s2cid=219459436 |issn=1573-7101}}</ref> He was known for criticism of [[planned economy|command economies]] of [[Eastern Europe]]an [[communist state]]s. He was emeritus professor at both [[Harvard University]] and [[Corvinus University of Budapest]]. In 1982, he became a member of the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]]. In 1989, he was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Kornai_János |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Kornai_János |title=János Kornai|publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Kornai died on 18 October 2021, at the age of 93.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-18|title=Elhunyt Kornai János közgazdász|url=https://hvg.hu/itthon/20211018_Elhunyt_Kornai_Janos_kozgazdasz|access-date=2021-10-18|website=[[Heti Világgazdaság|HVG]]|language=hu}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kornai, Janos}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Hungarian economi