Back Matter Source: Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 55, No. 3 (2005) Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40729728 . Accessed: 13/06/2014 11:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Akadémiai Kiadó is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Acta Oeconomica. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.126.108 on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:36:56 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Annamária Artner (43) PhD. She got her diploma at the Karl Marx University (Corvinus University) Budapest in 1984. Since then she has been working at the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, now as a Senior Research Fellow. Artner is author of several papers and articles on the eco- nomic development of individual countries (Ireland, Greece, ASEAN-member states, etc.), the problem of late development and catching-up process of the less developed economies, the role of FDI in modernisation and competitiveness. She has also been studying the Hungarian economy on micro-level, especially on the bases of field research, interviews and the socio-economic effects of globalisation and civil movements criticising the world-wide process. Main last publications: A perifériáról a centrumba? írország gazdasági fejlodése az elmúlt évtizedekben (From the Periphery to the Centre? Economic Development of Ireland in the Last Decades), (co-author: Andor, L.). Budapest: Aula, 2000; Ungarn: Referendum vor EU Beitritt. Ost-West Informationen Ausgabe, 13(1) (2001); Anti-globa- lization Movements: the Developments in Asia. Contemporary Politics, 10(3-4): 243-256, 2004. E-mail: [email protected]
András Blahó (58) is Professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, he is Head of the Department of World Economy. His field of research and teaching fo- cuses on economic and social issues related to the European Union, world eco- nomic development, transnational corporations and international organisations. He has been staff member of the United Nations Secretariat in New York between 1982 and 1997, as Economic Affairs Officer working on Central and Eastern Eu- rope and China. His main publications include: Going Global (ed. by Padma Desai), Cambridge-Boston, MA: The MIT Press, 1997; Európai integrados alapismeretek (Basic Issues of European Integration), as editor, 4 editions, Buda- pest: Aula, 2001-2004; Nemzetközi szervezetek és intézmények (International
organisations and institutions), as editor and co-author with Árpád Prandler. Bu- dapest: Aula, 2005, 2nd, enlarged edition. E-mail: [email protected]
István R. Gabor (57) is currently a Professor of Labour Economics at Corvinus University, Budapest. His main research interest is the institutional aspects of in- come-earning activities. Some of his main publications in English: The Second (Secondary) Economy (Acta Oeconomica, 1979: 291-31 1); Second Economy in State Socialism: Past Experience and Future Prospects (European Economic Re- view, 1989 (33): 509-604); Modernity or a New Kind of Duality? (in: J. M. Ko vács (ed.): Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Eu- rope. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994, 3-20); Too Many, Too Small: Small Entrepreneurship in Hungary (in: Grabher, G. - Stark, D. (eds): Re- structuring Networks: Legacies, Linkages and Localities in Postsocialism. Lon- don-New York: OUP, 1997, 58-75); Internal vs. Occupational Labor Market - a Neglected Dimension of Hungary's Post-socialist Transformation (in: Maskin, E. S. - Simonovits, A. (eds): Planning, Shortage, and Transformation: Essays in Honor ofJános Kornai. Cambridge, MA-London: MIT Press, 2000, 283-306). E-mail: [email protected]
Dora Gyorffy (27) is a PhD student in International Relations and European Studies at the Central European University, where she received an MA degree in 2003. She holds a BA degree in Government from Harvard University. Her PhD dissertation concerns the reform of public finance management systems in small open economies in response to financial globalisation. E-mail: [email protected]
Ichiro Iwasaki (39) is Associate Professor of the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He has earned doctor's degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University. His doctoral dissertation titled An Institutional Analysis of Transition Economies in Central Asia was published by the University of Tokyo Press in 2004. He is author of many Japanese and international journals. His recent research work is focusing on enterprise reforms and corporate gover- nance in transition economies. E-mail: [email protected]
Tamás Kovács (26) is a second-year PhD student at the University of Pecs (Hun- gary), where he received a BA degree in history in 2003. His PhD dissertation concerns the political police during the Horthy and arrow-cross regime, 1920-1945. He is author of several publications related to these topics, and gave
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some presentations at international conferences in Hungary and abroad. He is em- ployee of the Holocaust Memorial Centre for Budapest, where he is the leader of the Collection and Library Group. Besides this he teaches at University of Veszprém and the Eötvös Loránd University. His professional interest includes economic hisory and comparative economics. E-mail address: [email protected]
Qerim Qerimi (25) received MA degree at the St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, in May 2005. He graduated in Political Science and Law, and has been studying at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and the University of Pristina in Kosovo. He has worked as a journalist and editor in the Balkans for a period of five years. He has written extensively on political, social and economic development of the region and its European integration, in addition to writing on human development and the new constitutive global processes. His latest publica- tions include a book chapter on Human values-based approach to development: Amartya Sen and Central Eastern Europe (in: Sergi, B. S. - Bagatelas, W. T. (eds): Ethical Interpretations of Post-Communist Transition Economics and Politics in Europe. Bratislava: Iura, 2005); journal articles, such as Globalization of Law (Merkourios, published at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, 2005); The Real Face of the New World Order: Sovereignty and International Security in the Age of Globalization (Politikon, 2004). Currently he is the Executive Editor of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review in Miami. E-mail: [email protected]
Kazuko Sato (45) is research fellow at the Institute of Russian and East European Economic Studies, Japan Association for Trade with Russia and Central-Eastern Europe (ROTOBO), Tokyo. She has earned MA in political science from Keio University and MA in economics from Hitotsubashi University. She specialises in the social security systems in Central and Eastern Europe. E-mail: [email protected]
András Simonovits (58) has been working at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest since 1970. He has published papers and books about as diverse topics as linear models, shortage economy, overlap- ping cohorts and pension reforms. He published and edited five books: Cycles and Stagnation in Socialist Economies: A Mathematical Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992; Prices, Growth and Cycles, Essays in Honor of A. Bródy (co-editor: A. Steenge). Oxford: Macmillan, 1997; Planning, Shortage and Transformation, Es- says in Honor ofJános Kornai (co-editor: E. Maskin). Cambridge, MA: MIT
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Viktoria Vásáry (28) is PhD Student of the Department of Market Economics at the Szent István University, Hungary. Her topic is "The Adaptation of the Agri- cultural Information and Statistical System of the EU in Hungary - Integrated Ad- ministration and Control System". E-mail: [email protected]
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