Award News - By Force of Thought

 

"Intellectual autobiographies are rare in economics, and even rarer are autobiographies that show in such an evocative way where the ideas of economists come from. Kornai’s precision and sense for detail give the reader deep insight into the intellectual journey of one of the twentieth century’s most independent minds, and one of its most acute thinkers."

This weekend at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize was awarded to János Kornai for By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey.

The AAASS Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, sponsored by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER), is awarded annually for an outstanding publication on the political economy of the centrally planned economies of the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe and their transitional successors.  To read more about the prize, see the prize website.