Download or read book By Force of Thought written by János Kornai and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual autobiography of an economist influential in both command economies and free market economies that discusses his life, work, and the social and political environment during the Second World War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath, and the post-socialist transition.