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All these had great secondary influence on each country’s economic development and the standard of living and disposition of its inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of the studies is confined to one country - not to Hungary or to any other. Each tries to embrace the problems common to greater units. However, the greater unit comprehended is not the same in each study. One may deal with the capitalist or socialist system in general, another will all the post-socialist countries, and a third the Central East European region. 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He lost family members in the Holocaust, contributed to the ideological preparation for the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and became an influential theorist of the post-Soviet economic transition. He has been a journalist, a researcher prohibited from teaching in his home country, and a tenured professor at Harvard. \u003ci\u003eBy Force of Thought\u003c\/i\u003e traces Kornai's lifelong intellectual journey and offers a subjective complement to his academic research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisenchanted with communism, Kornai published \u003ci\u003eOvercentralization\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), the first book written by someone living behind the Iron Curtain to be openly critical of Soviet-style economics. Although it was attacked in Hungary, it was hailed by Western economists. The Kornai-Lipt k theory on two-level planning captured the attention of mathematical economists. 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