Kornai János: The “Montias case,” 1964 Excerpt from János Kornai’s book By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey By Force of Thoughts” (extracts). In English. In Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007. No 35, pp. 438-442. Original 1.15, in Hungarain 2005.
Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 35, Number 2, June 2007 CONTENTS Symposium: Courts and Judges Guest Editor: Pablo T. Spiller SYMPOSIUM ARTICLES Pablo T. Spiller. Introduction: Courts and Judges............................................................... 253 Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Konstantin Sonin, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. Are Russian commercial courts biased? Evidence from a bankruptcy law transplant.. 254 Daniel Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney. Legal origin?................................................... 278 Mark J. Roe. Juries and the political economy of legal origin......................................... 294 Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer. Overruling and the instability of law.............. 309 J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen. Political uncertainty’s effect on judicial recruitment and retention: Japan in the 1990s............................................................. 329 REGULAR ARTICLES Naohito Abe and Satoshi Shimizutani. Employment policy and corporate governance— An empirical comparison of the stakeholder and the profit-maximization model 346 Dimitri G. Demekas, Balázs Horváth, Elina Ribakova, and Yi Wu. Foreign direct investment in European transition economies—The role of policies...................... 369 Balázs Egert. Central bank interventions, communication and interest rate policy in emerging European economies...................................................................................... 387 Dennis C. Mueller and Evgeni Peev. Corporate governance and investment in Central and Eastern Europe............................................................................................................ 414 IN HONOR OF JOHN MICHAEL MONTIAS János Kornai. The “Montias case,” 1964. Excerpt from János Komai’s book By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey....................................... 438