A Beruházások Matematikai Programozása. [Mathematical Programming of Investments].

KORNAI, János.

$975.00

Item Number: 146268

Budapest: Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, 1962.

First edition of this economic work. Octavo, original light blue cloth, illustrated with graphs and a folding chart at the rear. Presentation copy, inscribed in Hungarian by the author on the title page. In very good condition with some sunning to the spine and a single page detached. A rare example. WorldCat locates nine copies in total: three apiece in Hungary and the US, two in Germany, and one in Switzerland.

János Kornai was a Hungarian economist noted as the first to perform analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states and macroeconomic aspects in countries undergoing post-Soviet transition. His 'A Beruházások Matematikai Programozása' outlines the use of mathematical programming as a tool in drawing up the five-year economic plan.