János Mátyás Kovács

Articles and Book Chapters

1975. The Socialist Market Economy of Yugoslavia (review article). Acta Oeconomica, 15.
1980. Alku, asszimiláció, alku (Bargaining, Assimilation, Bargaining). In: Márton Tardos ed. Vállalati magatartás – vállalati környezet. Budapest: KJK.
1982. Gazdasági intézmények történelmi(etlen) párhuzamai. A NEP és a magyar gazdasági reform (/A/historical Parallels Between Economic Institutions. The New Economic Policy and the New Economic Mechanism). In: Iván Major ed. Gazdaságpolitika – Gazdasági Szervezet. Budapest: Az MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet Közleményei.
1982. Az elfelejtett konszenzus. A Buharin-Preobrazsenszkij vita újraértékeléséhez (The Forgotten Consensus. Rethinking the Preobrazhensky-Bukharin Controversy). Medvetánc, 2–3.
1982. Egy régi vita az Új Gazdaságról. Válogatás Buharin és Preobrazsenszkij műveiből (An Old Debate About the New Economics. A Selection from Bukharin's and Preobrazhensky's Works). Medvetánc, 2–3.
1983. Bargaining – Assimilation – Bargaining. Eastern European Economics, 1.
1983. Reform – itt és most? Beszélgetés Tardos Mártonnal (Reform: Here and Now? Conversation with Márton Tardos). Mozgó Világ, 2.
1984. A reformalku sűrűjében. Nyilvános vita a reform reformjáról (In the Thick of Reform Bargaining. A Public Debate on the 'Reform of the Reform'). Valóság, 3.
1985. The 'Other' Preobrazhensky. Budapest: Institute of Economics, HAS.
1986. Reform Bargaining in Hungary. An Interview with János Mátyás Kovács (John B. Hall). Comparative Economic Studies, 3.
1990. 1990. Reform Economics: The Classification Gap. Daedalus, Winter
1990. Szociális vagy szocialista piacgazdaság? Beszélgetés Kovács János Mátyással (Pető András). (Social or Socialist Market Economy? Conversation with János Mátyás Kovács). Világosság 1.
1990. Das große Experiment des Übergangs. Über die Grenzen unseres ökonomischen Wissens (The Great Experiment of Transition. On the Limits of Our Economic Knowledge). Transit, 1.
1991. From Reformation to Transformation. Limits to Liberalism in Hungarian Economic Thought. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Rediscovery of Liberalism in Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies, special issue, 1.
1991. Ex occidente lux. In: J. M. Kovacs ed. Rediscovery of Liberalism in Eastern Europe, East European Politics and Societies, 1.
1992. Compassionate Doubts about Reform Economics (Science, Ideology, Politics). In: J.M. Kovács and M. Tardos eds. Reform and Transformation. Eastern European Economics on the Threshold of Change. London: Routledge.
1992. Engineers of the Transition. Interventionist Temptations in Eastern European Economic Thought. Acta Oeconomica, 1–2.
1992. Az átmenet mérnökei. Intervencionista kísértés a kelet-európai közgazdasági gondolkodásban (Engineers of the Transition. Interventionist Temptations in Eastern European Economic Thought). 2000, 1.
1992. Money is Time. On the Pace of Post-Communist Transformation. In: Debate on the Transition of Post-Communist Economies to a Market Economy. Acta Oeconomica, 3–4.
1992. Democracy, Development, and Economic Growth: The Hungarian Experience. Development and Democracy, 2.
1992. Jetzt oder nie? Über die Geschwindigkeit postkommunistischer Umgestaltung (Now or Never? On the Pace of Post-Communist Transformation). Was, 70.
1993. Which Institutionalism? Searching for Paradigms of Transformation in Eastern European Economic Thought. In: Hans-Jürgen Wagener ed. The Political Economy of Transformation. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.
1994. Az institucionalizmus népszerűségéről. Amikor kelet-európai közgazdászok liberális paradigmát keresnek (On the Popularity of Institutionalism. Eastern European Economists in a Search for a Liberal Paradigm). Világosság, 5–6.
1994. Official and Alternative Legacies. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.
1994. Planning the Transformation? Notes about the Legacy of the Reform Economists. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.
1994. Az ökonómia előtt. Beszélgetés Bródy Andrással (Before Economics. Conversation with András Bródy). 2000, 9, and In: Judit Szabó and Aladár Madarász eds. Miért hagytuk, hogy így legyen? Budapest: KJK.
1995. Paradigmen des Übergangs. Westlicher Theorieangebot und Östliche Nachfrage in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Paradigms of the Transition. Western Supply of and Eastern Demand for Theories in Economics). Transit, 9.
1996. Liska-Torzó (Liska Torso). 2000, 1.
1996. Out of the Incubator. In: J.M.Kovács ed. The Social Costs of the Economic Transformation in Central Europe. International Review of Comparative Public Policy, special issue, 7.
1996. Örökség, utánzás, felfedezés. Közgazdasági gondolkodás Magyarországon 1989 után (Legacy, Imitation, Invention. Economic Thought in Hungary after 1989). Közgazdasági Szemle, 4.
1996. Paradigmaty transformacji gospodarczej (Paradigms of Economic Transformation). Transit Polski 1996/2.
1996. Haider in Ungarn. Notizen zum postmodernen Populismus (Haider in Hungary. Notes about Postmodern Populism). Transit 11.
1997. Unsichere Geister. Populisten und Liberale im postkommunistischen Ungarn (Uncertain Ghosts. Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary). In: Peter Berger ed. Die Grenzen der Gemeinschaft, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann.
1997. A tékozló fiú sorsa. A kelet-európai közgazdasági gondolkodás (és története) hasznáról. (The Story of the Prodigal Son. On the Usefulness of Eastern European Economic Thought (and Its History). Közgazdasági Szemle 4.
1997. Boxing the Shadow? 'Neoliberals' and Social Quality After Communism. In: Wolfgang Beck et al. eds. The Social Quality of Europe, The Hague: Kluwer.
1998. Uncertain Ghosts. Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary. In: Peter Berger ed. Limits of Social Cohesion, Boulder: Westview Press.
1998. Frustration with Liberalism? 'Sound Interventionism' in Eastern European Economics. In: Martin Bull and Mike Ingham eds. Reform of the Socialist System in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Macmillan.
1999. Praising the Hybrids. Notes on Economic Thought Ten Years After. East European Politics and Societies, 2.
1999. Turbulenzen im Vakuum. Anmerkungen zur kulturellen Globalisierung in Osteuropa (Turbulence in Vacuum. On Cultural Globalization in Eastern Europe). Transit, 17.
1999. Ma jobban tudom, hogy senki sem tudja. Beszélgetés Tardos Mártonnal (Today I Know Better That No One Knows. Conversation with Márton Tardos). 2000, 3.
2001. Westerweiterung? Zur Metamorphose des Traums von Mitteleuropa (Western Enlargement. On the Metamorphosis of the Mitteleuropa Dream). Transit, 21.
2001. Versengő ajánlatok – passzív rezisztencia. Egy 'gyenge' kultúra erejéről (Rival Temptations – Passive Resistance. On the Strength of a 'Weak' Culture). 2000, 11.
2002. Rival Temptations – Passive Resistance. Cultural Globalization in Hungary. In: Peter Berger and Samuel Huntington eds. Many Globalizations, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2002. Approaching the EU And Reaching the US? Transforming Welfare Regimes in East-Central Europe. West European Politics, April
2002. Business as (Un)usual. Notes on the Westernization of Economic Sciences in Eastern Europe. In: Max Kaase and Vera Sparschuh eds. Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe. Handbook on Economics, Political Science and Sociology (1989–2001). GESIS/ Social Science Information Centre (IZ), Bonn/Berlin and Collegium Budapest.
2002. Egy nemszeretem fogalom: a globalizáció (Globalization: An Unpleasant Concept). In: J.M. Kovács ed. Zárva-várt nyugat. Kulturális globalizáció Magyarországon. Budapest: Sik Kiadó.
2002. Vissza a fősodorba? A magyar közgazdasági gondolkodás nyugatosodásáról (Back to the Mainstream? On the Westernization of Economic Thought in Hungary). In: J.M. Kovács ed. Zárva-várt nyugat. Kulturális globalizáció Magyarországon. Budapest: Sik Kiadó.
2002. Versengő ajánlatok – passzív rezisztencia. Egy 'gyenge' kultúra erejéről. (Rival Temptations – Passive Resistance. On the Strength of a 'Weak' Culture). In: J.M. Kovács ed. Zárva-várt nyugat. Kulturális globalizáció Magyarországon. Budapest: Sik Kiadó.
2003. Contribution to a discussion of Alfred Gusenbauer’s paper 'Die Bekämpfung des Rechtspopulismus in den europäischen Demokratien' (Combatting Right-Wing Populism in European Democracies). Transit, 25.
2003. Hozzászólás a Collegium Budapest által szervezett vitához az EU bővítéséről (Contribution to a discussion on EU Enlargement in the Collegium Budapest). Magyar Lettre Internationale, 49.
2003. A Cushion That Suffocates? Transforming the ‘Communist Welfare State’ in East-Central Europe. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Small Transformations. The Politics of Welfare Reform – East and West. Münster: LIT Verlag.
2004. Zwischen Ressentiment und Indifferenz. Solidaritätsdiskurse vor der EU Erweiterung (Between Resentment and Indifference. Narratives of Solidarity Before the EU Enlargement). Transit 26.
2004. Little America. Transit, 27.
2004. Vergangenheit oder Vorvergangenheit? Kultur und Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Osteuropa nach 1989 (Simple Past or Past Perfect? Culture and Economic Development in Eastern Europe after 1989). Berliner Debatte, 5–6.
2006. Between Resentment and Indifference. Narratives of Solidarity in the Enlarging Union. In: Krzysztof Michalski ed. What Holds Europe Together? Budapest: CEU Press.
2006. Which Past Matters? Culture and Economic Development in Eastern Europe after 1989. In: Lawrence Harrison and Peter Berger eds. Developing Cultures, London: Routledge.
2006. Jastuk koji guši? Transformiranje 'komunističke socijalnje ždrave' u srednjoistočnoj Europi. In: Siniša Zrinscak ed. Socijalna država u 21. stoljeću – privid ili stvarnost? Zagreb: Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta.
2006. Hozzászólás (Contribution). Laki Mihály ed. Egy délután Kornaival. Beszélgetés A gondolat erejével c. könyvről. Budapest: MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet.
2007. Little America. Eastern European Economic Cultures in the EU. In: Ivan Krastev and Alan McPherson eds. The Anti-American Century, New York – Budapest: CEU Press.
2007. Worte zu Schwerten. Wie in Ostmitteleuropa Wohlfahrtsreformen gezimmert werden (Words into Swords. How Welfare Reforms in East-Central Europe Are Fabricated). Transit, 32.
2007. Narcissism of Small Differences. Looking Back on 'Reform Economics' in Hungary. In: Christoph Boyer ed. Zur Physiognomie sozialistischer Wirtschaftsreformen, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann.
2007. A heterodoxia magánya. Lányi Kamilla írásairól (The Solitude of Heterodoxy. On the Works of Kamilla Lányi). Közgazdasági Szemle 7–8, and In: Kamilla Lányi: Piacok, globalizáció, harmadik út, Budapest: Kopint-Datorg.
2007. Tardos-torzó (Tardos Torso). In: Barátunk, Marci. Tardos Márton emlékére, Budapest: Pénzügykutató Rt.
2008. Accomplices without Perpetrators. What Do Economists Have to Do with Transitional Justice in Hungary? Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 2–3.
2008. Varietas Delectat? Preliminary Thoughts On the Typology of Nascent Capitalisms in Eastern Europe. In: Drago Cengic ed. Kapitalizam i Socijalna Integracija, Zagreb: Institut Ivo Pilar.
2008. A terv tudója. Antal László ‘Rendszerünk’-jét olvasom (The Connoisseur of Planning. Reading László Antal’s ’Our System’). Hitelintézeti Szemle, 6.
2009. Ex Occidente Flux. Vita a makroökonómia hasznáról és a közgazdaságtan felelősségéről (Ex Occidente Flux. A Debate on the Usefulness of Macroeconomics and the Responsibility of Economics). Közgazdasági Szemle, 10
2009. Solidaritätsdiskurse: Östliches Ressentiment und westliche Indifferenz (Discourses of Solidarity: Eastern Resentment and Western Indifference). Amos International, 4.
2009. Crazy Convergence? In: Rüdiger Frank and Sabine Burghart eds. Driving Forces of Socialist Transformation, Wien: Praesens Verlag.
2010. Various Varieties. On the Classification of New Capitalisms in Eastern Europe. In: Hans-Georg Soeffner ed. Unsichere Zeiten. Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2010. Importing Spiritual Capital. East-West Encounters and Capitalist Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989. In: Peter Berger and Gordon Redding eds. The Hidden Form of Capital, London: Anthem Press.
2011. Petering Out or Flaming Up? New Institutional Economics in East-Central Europe. Economic Sociology, 1, http://econsoc.mpifg.de/archive/econ_soc_13-1.pdf
2011. Ferge-hommage (Ferge Hommage). In: Köszönő köszöntő. Ferge Zsuzsa 80. születésnapjára, Budapest: Demax.
2012. Вспышка или затухание? Новая институциональная экономическая теория в Центральной и Восточной Европе (Petering Out or Flaming Up? New Institutional Economics in East-Central Europe). Ekonomicheskaia Sotsiologiya 2.
2012. (with Violetta Zentai) Going beyond Homo Sovieticus. In: J.M. Kovács and Violetta Zentai eds. Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989, Budapest – New York: CEU Press.
2012. Beyond Basic Instinct. On the Reception of New Institutional Economics in Eastern Europe. In: J.M. Kovács and Violetta Zentai eds. Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989, Budapest – New York: CEU Press.
2012. (with Violetta Zentai) Defining the Indefinable: East–West Cultural Encounters. In: J.M. Kovács and Violetta Zentai eds. Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989, Budapest – New York: CEU Press.
2013. Tradition, Nachamung, Erfindung. Neue Kapitalismen in Osteuropa (Tradition, Emulation, Invention. New Capitalisms in Eastern Europe). Transit, 43.
2013. Ágyúval verébre? A kelet-európai közgazdasági eszmék történetéről (1917–1989) I. (Shooting Sparrows with a Cannon? On the History of Eastern European Economic Thought). 2000, 5.
2013. Ágyúval verébre? A kelet-európai közgazdasági eszmék történetéről (1917–1989) II. (Shooting Sparrows with a Cannon? On the History of Eastern European Economic Thought). 2000, 6.
2016. Minden, amit tudni akartam a matematikai közgazdaságtanról, de nem mertem megkérdezni (Everything I Always Wanted to Know about Mathematical Economics But Was Afraid to Ask). 2000, 11.
2017. Vom Zweifel zur Scham. Sieben falsche Vorhersagen über das postkommunistische Ungarn (From Doubt to Shame. Seven Flawed Predictions about Post-Communist Hungary). Transit, 50.
2018. Irány homály. Hogyan nem lettem reformer '68 Magyarországán? (Heading the Gloom. How Did I Not Become a Reformer in the Hungary of 1968?). 2000, 6.
2018. Why Communism? Why Ownership? In: J.M. Kovács ed. Populating No Man’s Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2018. From Two to One (and Only)? Theorizing Ownership in Communist Hungary. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Populating No Man’s Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2018. Expeditions to No Man's Land. Comparing Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. An Evolutionary View. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Populating No Man’s Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2019. (with Balázs Trencsényi) Historicizing an Anti-Liberal Turn. In: J.M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds. Brave New Hungary. Mapping the 'System of National Cooperation'. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2019. Orban’s Right Hand Thinks. On the Sources of György Matolcsy’s Economic Vision. In: J.M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds. Brave New Hungary. Mapping the 'System of National Cooperation'. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2019. (with Balázs Trencsényi) Hungary – Brave and New? Dissecting a Realistic Dystopia. In: J.M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds. Brave New Hungary. Mapping the 'System of National Cooperation'. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2020. Szép új Magyarország. Beszélgetés Kovács János Mátyással (Brave New Hungary. Conversation with János Mátyás Kovács) (Fóti Tamás). Élet és Irodalom, January 10.
2022. Another 'Grand Illusion'. Optimizing the Central Plan. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Communist Planning versus Rationality. Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2022. (with Gergely Kőhegyi) Mathematical Economics Outside the Neoclassical Paradigm? Evolution of Planning Concepts in Hungary under Communism. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Communist Planning versus Rationality. Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2022. Rationality Found and Lost? In Search of a New Historical Narrative of Optimal Planning. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Communist Planning versus Rationality. Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. Lanham: Lexington Books.

1975

The Socialist Market Economy of Yugoslavia (review article). Acta Oeconomica, 15.

1980

Alku, asszimiláció, alku (Bargaining, Assimilation, Bargaining). In: Márton Tardos ed. Vállalati magatartás – vállalati környezet. Budapest: KJK.

1982

Gazdasági intézmények történelmi(etlen) párhuzamai. A NEP és a magyar gazdasági reform (/A/historical Parallels Between Economic Institutions. The New Economic Policy and the New Economic Mechanism). In: Iván Major ed. Gazdaságpolitika – Gazdasági Szervezet. Budapest: Az MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet Közleményei.

1982

Az elfelejtett konszenzus. A Buharin-Preobrazsenszkij vita újraértékeléséhez (The Forgotten Consensus. Rethinking the Preobrazhensky-Bukharin Controversy). Medvetánc, 2–3.

1982

Egy régi vita az Új Gazdaságról. Válogatás Buharin és Preobrazsenszkij műveiből (An Old Debate About the New Economics. A Selection from Bukharin's and Preobrazhensky's Works). Medvetánc, 2–3.

1983

Bargaining – Assimilation – Bargaining. Eastern European Economics, 1.

1983

Reform – itt és most? Beszélgetés Tardos Mártonnal (Reform: Here and Now? Conversation with Márton Tardos). Mozgó Világ, 2.

1984

A reformalku sűrűjében. Nyilvános vita a reform reformjáról (In the Thick of Reform Bargaining. A Public Debate on the 'Reform of the Reform'). Valóság, 3.

1985

The 'Other' Preobrazhensky. Budapest: Institute of Economics, HAS.

1986

Reform Bargaining in Hungary. An Interview with János Mátyás Kovács (John B. Hall). Comparative Economic Studies, 3.

1990

1990. Reform Economics: The Classification Gap. Daedalus, Winter

1990

Szociális vagy szocialista piacgazdaság? Beszélgetés Kovács János Mátyással (Pető András). (Social or Socialist Market Economy? Conversation with János Mátyás Kovács). Világosság 1.

1990

Das große Experiment des Übergangs. Über die Grenzen unseres ökonomischen Wissens (The Great Experiment of Transition. On the Limits of Our Economic Knowledge). Transit, 1.

1991

From Reformation to Transformation. Limits to Liberalism in Hungarian Economic Thought. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Rediscovery of Liberalism in Eastern Europe. East European Politics and Societies, special issue, 1.

1991

Ex occidente lux. In: J. M. Kovacs ed. Rediscovery of Liberalism in Eastern Europe, East European Politics and Societies, 1.

1992

Compassionate Doubts about Reform Economics (Science, Ideology, Politics). In: J.M. Kovács and M. Tardos eds. Reform and Transformation. Eastern European Economics on the Threshold of Change. London: Routledge.

1992

Engineers of the Transition. Interventionist Temptations in Eastern European Economic Thought. Acta Oeconomica, 1–2.

1992

Az átmenet mérnökei. Intervencionista kísértés a kelet-európai közgazdasági gondolkodásban (Engineers of the Transition. Interventionist Temptations in Eastern European Economic Thought). 2000, 1.

1992

Money is Time. On the Pace of Post-Communist Transformation. In: Debate on the Transition of Post-Communist Economies to a Market Economy. Acta Oeconomica, 3–4.

1992

Democracy, Development, and Economic Growth: The Hungarian Experience. Development and Democracy, 2.

1992

Jetzt oder nie? Über die Geschwindigkeit postkommunistischer Umgestaltung (Now or Never? On the Pace of Post-Communist Transformation). Was, 70.

1993

Which Institutionalism? Searching for Paradigms of Transformation in Eastern European Economic Thought. In: Hans-Jürgen Wagener ed. The Political Economy of Transformation. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.

1994

Az institucionalizmus népszerűségéről. Amikor kelet-európai közgazdászok liberális paradigmát keresnek (On the Popularity of Institutionalism. Eastern European Economists in a Search for a Liberal Paradigm). Világosság, 5–6.

1994

Official and Alternative Legacies. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.

1994

Planning the Transformation? Notes about the Legacy of the Reform Economists. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Transition to Capitalism? The Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.

1994

Az ökonómia előtt. Beszélgetés Bródy Andrással (Before Economics. Conversation with András Bródy). 2000, 9, and In: Judit Szabó and Aladár Madarász eds. Miért hagytuk, hogy így legyen? Budapest: KJK.

1995

Paradigmen des Übergangs. Westlicher Theorieangebot und Östliche Nachfrage in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Paradigms of the Transition. Western Supply of and Eastern Demand for Theories in Economics). Transit, 9.

1996

Liska-Torzó (Liska Torso). 2000, 1.

1996

Out of the Incubator. In: J.M.Kovács ed. The Social Costs of the Economic Transformation in Central Europe. International Review of Comparative Public Policy, special issue, 7.

1996

Örökség, utánzás, felfedezés. Közgazdasági gondolkodás Magyarországon 1989 után (Legacy, Imitation, Invention. Economic Thought in Hungary after 1989). Közgazdasági Szemle, 4.

1996

Paradigmaty transformacji gospodarczej (Paradigms of Economic Transformation). Transit Polski 1996/2.

1996

Haider in Ungarn. Notizen zum postmodernen Populismus (Haider in Hungary. Notes about Postmodern Populism). Transit 11.

1997

Unsichere Geister. Populisten und Liberale im postkommunistischen Ungarn (Uncertain Ghosts. Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary). In: Peter Berger ed. Die Grenzen der Gemeinschaft, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann.

1997

A tékozló fiú sorsa. A kelet-európai közgazdasági gondolkodás (és története) hasznáról. (The Story of the Prodigal Son. On the Usefulness of Eastern European Economic Thought (and Its History). Közgazdasági Szemle 4.

1997

Boxing the Shadow? 'Neoliberals' and Social Quality After Communism. In: Wolfgang Beck et al. eds. The Social Quality of Europe, The Hague: Kluwer.

1998

Uncertain Ghosts. Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary. In: Peter Berger ed. Limits of Social Cohesion, Boulder: Westview Press.

1998

Frustration with Liberalism? 'Sound Interventionism' in Eastern European Economics. In: Martin Bull and Mike Ingham eds. Reform of the Socialist System in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Macmillan.

1999

Praising the Hybrids. Notes on Economic Thought Ten Years After. East European Politics and Societies, 2.

1999

Turbulenzen im Vakuum. Anmerkungen zur kulturellen Globalisierung in Osteuropa (Turbulence in Vacuum. On Cultural Globalization in Eastern Europe). Transit, 17.

1999

Ma jobban tudom, hogy senki sem tudja. Beszélgetés Tardos Mártonnal (Today I Know Better That No One Knows. Conversation with Márton Tardos). 2000, 3.

2001

Westerweiterung? Zur Metamorphose des Traums von Mitteleuropa (Western Enlargement. On the Metamorphosis of the Mitteleuropa Dream). Transit, 21.

2001

Versengő ajánlatok – passzív rezisztencia. Egy 'gyenge' kultúra erejéről (Rival Temptations – Passive Resistance. On the Strength of a 'Weak' Culture). 2000, 11.

2002

Rival Temptations – Passive Resistance. Cultural Globalization in Hungary. In: Peter Berger and Samuel Huntington eds. Many Globalizations, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2002

Approaching the EU And Reaching the US? Transforming Welfare Regimes in East-Central Europe. West European Politics, April

2002

Business as (Un)usual. Notes on the Westernization of Economic Sciences in Eastern Europe. In: Max Kaase and Vera Sparschuh eds. Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe. Handbook on Economics, Political Science and Sociology (1989–2001). GESIS/ Social Science Information Centre (IZ), Bonn/Berlin and Collegium Budapest.

2002

Egy nemszeretem fogalom: a globalizáció (Globalization: An Unpleasant Concept). In: J.M. Kovács ed. Zárva-várt nyugat. Kulturális globalizáció Magyarországon. Budapest: Sik Kiadó.

2002

Vissza a fősodorba? A magyar közgazdasági gondolkodás nyugatosodásáról (Back to the Mainstream? On the Westernization of Economic Thought in Hungary). In: J.M. Kovács ed. Zárva-várt nyugat. Kulturális globalizáció Magyarországon. Budapest: Sik Kiadó.

2002

Versengő ajánlatok – passzív rezisztencia. Egy 'gyenge' kultúra erejéről. (Rival Temptations – Passive Resistance. On the Strength of a 'Weak' Culture). In: J.M. Kovács ed. Zárva-várt nyugat. Kulturális globalizáció Magyarországon. Budapest: Sik Kiadó.

2003

Contribution to a discussion of Alfred Gusenbauer’s paper 'Die Bekämpfung des Rechtspopulismus in den europäischen Demokratien' (Combatting Right-Wing Populism in European Democracies). Transit, 25.

2003

Hozzászólás a Collegium Budapest által szervezett vitához az EU bővítéséről (Contribution to a discussion on EU Enlargement in the Collegium Budapest). Magyar Lettre Internationale, 49.

2003

A Cushion That Suffocates? Transforming the ‘Communist Welfare State’ in East-Central Europe. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Small Transformations. The Politics of Welfare Reform – East and West. Münster: LIT Verlag.

2004

Zwischen Ressentiment und Indifferenz. Solidaritätsdiskurse vor der EU Erweiterung (Between Resentment and Indifference. Narratives of Solidarity Before the EU Enlargement). Transit 26.

2004

Little America. Transit, 27.

2004

Vergangenheit oder Vorvergangenheit? Kultur und Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Osteuropa nach 1989 (Simple Past or Past Perfect? Culture and Economic Development in Eastern Europe after 1989). Berliner Debatte, 5–6.

2006

Between Resentment and Indifference. Narratives of Solidarity in the Enlarging Union. In: Krzysztof Michalski ed. What Holds Europe Together? Budapest: CEU Press.

2006

Which Past Matters? Culture and Economic Development in Eastern Europe after 1989. In: Lawrence Harrison and Peter Berger eds. Developing Cultures, London: Routledge.

2006

Jastuk koji guši? Transformiranje 'komunističke socijalnje ždrave' u srednjoistočnoj Europi. In: Siniša Zrinscak ed. Socijalna država u 21. stoljeću – privid ili stvarnost? Zagreb: Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta.

2006

Hozzászólás (Contribution). Laki Mihály ed. Egy délután Kornaival. Beszélgetés A gondolat erejével c. könyvről. Budapest: MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet.

2007

Little America. Eastern European Economic Cultures in the EU. In: Ivan Krastev and Alan McPherson eds. The Anti-American Century, New York – Budapest: CEU Press.

2007

Worte zu Schwerten. Wie in Ostmitteleuropa Wohlfahrtsreformen gezimmert werden (Words into Swords. How Welfare Reforms in East-Central Europe Are Fabricated). Transit, 32.

2007

Narcissism of Small Differences. Looking Back on 'Reform Economics' in Hungary. In: Christoph Boyer ed. Zur Physiognomie sozialistischer Wirtschaftsreformen, Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann.

2007

A heterodoxia magánya. Lányi Kamilla írásairól (The Solitude of Heterodoxy. On the Works of Kamilla Lányi). Közgazdasági Szemle 7–8, and In: Kamilla Lányi: Piacok, globalizáció, harmadik út, Budapest: Kopint-Datorg.

2007

Tardos-torzó (Tardos Torso). In: Barátunk, Marci. Tardos Márton emlékére, Budapest: Pénzügykutató Rt.

2008

Accomplices without Perpetrators. What Do Economists Have to Do with Transitional Justice in Hungary? Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 2–3.

2008

Varietas Delectat? Preliminary Thoughts On the Typology of Nascent Capitalisms in Eastern Europe. In: Drago Cengic ed. Kapitalizam i Socijalna Integracija, Zagreb: Institut Ivo Pilar.

2008

A terv tudója. Antal László ‘Rendszerünk’-jét olvasom (The Connoisseur of Planning. Reading László Antal’s ’Our System’). Hitelintézeti Szemle, 6.

2009

Ex Occidente Flux. Vita a makroökonómia hasznáról és a közgazdaságtan felelősségéről (Ex Occidente Flux. A Debate on the Usefulness of Macroeconomics and the Responsibility of Economics). Közgazdasági Szemle, 10

2009

Solidaritätsdiskurse: Östliches Ressentiment und westliche Indifferenz (Discourses of Solidarity: Eastern Resentment and Western Indifference). Amos International, 4.

2009

Crazy Convergence? In: Rüdiger Frank and Sabine Burghart eds. Driving Forces of Socialist Transformation, Wien: Praesens Verlag.

2010

Various Varieties. On the Classification of New Capitalisms in Eastern Europe. In: Hans-Georg Soeffner ed. Unsichere Zeiten. Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

2010

Importing Spiritual Capital. East-West Encounters and Capitalist Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989. In: Peter Berger and Gordon Redding eds. The Hidden Form of Capital, London: Anthem Press.

2011

Petering Out or Flaming Up? New Institutional Economics in East-Central Europe. Economic Sociology, 1, http://econsoc.mpifg.de/archive/econ_soc_13-1.pdf

2011

Ferge-hommage (Ferge Hommage). In: Köszönő köszöntő. Ferge Zsuzsa 80. születésnapjára, Budapest: Demax.

2012

Вспышка или затухание? Новая институциональная экономическая теория в Центральной и Восточной Европе (Petering Out or Flaming Up? New Institutional Economics in East-Central Europe). Ekonomicheskaia Sotsiologiya 2.

2012

(with Violetta Zentai) Going beyond Homo Sovieticus. In: J.M. Kovács and Violetta Zentai eds. Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989, Budapest – New York: CEU Press.

2012

Beyond Basic Instinct. On the Reception of New Institutional Economics in Eastern Europe. In: J.M. Kovács and Violetta Zentai eds. Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989, Budapest – New York: CEU Press.

2012

(with Violetta Zentai) Defining the Indefinable: East–West Cultural Encounters. In: J.M. Kovács and Violetta Zentai eds. Capitalism from Outside? Economic Cultures in Eastern Europe after 1989, Budapest – New York: CEU Press.

2013

Tradition, Nachamung, Erfindung. Neue Kapitalismen in Osteuropa (Tradition, Emulation, Invention. New Capitalisms in Eastern Europe). Transit, 43.

2013

Ágyúval verébre? A kelet-európai közgazdasági eszmék történetéről (1917–1989) I. (Shooting Sparrows with a Cannon? On the History of Eastern European Economic Thought). 2000, 5.

2013

Ágyúval verébre? A kelet-európai közgazdasági eszmék történetéről (1917–1989) II. (Shooting Sparrows with a Cannon? On the History of Eastern European Economic Thought). 2000, 6.

2016

Minden, amit tudni akartam a matematikai közgazdaságtanról, de nem mertem megkérdezni (Everything I Always Wanted to Know about Mathematical Economics But Was Afraid to Ask). 2000, 11.

2017

Vom Zweifel zur Scham. Sieben falsche Vorhersagen über das postkommunistische Ungarn (From Doubt to Shame. Seven Flawed Predictions about Post-Communist Hungary). Transit, 50.

2018

Irány homály. Hogyan nem lettem reformer '68 Magyarországán? (Heading the Gloom. How Did I Not Become a Reformer in the Hungary of 1968?). 2000, 6.

2018

Why Communism? Why Ownership? In: J.M. Kovács ed. Populating No Man’s Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2018

From Two to One (and Only)? Theorizing Ownership in Communist Hungary. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Populating No Man’s Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2018

Expeditions to No Man's Land. Comparing Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. An Evolutionary View. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Populating No Man’s Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2019

(with Balázs Trencsényi) Historicizing an Anti-Liberal Turn. In: J.M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds. Brave New Hungary. Mapping the 'System of National Cooperation'. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2019

Orban’s Right Hand Thinks. On the Sources of György Matolcsy’s Economic Vision. In: J.M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds. Brave New Hungary. Mapping the 'System of National Cooperation'. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2019

(with Balázs Trencsényi) Hungary – Brave and New? Dissecting a Realistic Dystopia. In: J.M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi eds. Brave New Hungary. Mapping the 'System of National Cooperation'. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2020

Szép új Magyarország. Beszélgetés Kovács János Mátyással (Brave New Hungary. Conversation with János Mátyás Kovács) (Fóti Tamás). Élet és Irodalom, January 10.

2022

Another 'Grand Illusion'. Optimizing the Central Plan. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Communist Planning versus Rationality. Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2022

(with Gergely Kőhegyi) Mathematical Economics Outside the Neoclassical Paradigm? Evolution of Planning Concepts in Hungary under Communism. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Communist Planning versus Rationality. Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. Lanham: Lexington Books.

2022

Rationality Found and Lost? In Search of a New Historical Narrative of Optimal Planning. In: J.M. Kovács ed. Communist Planning versus Rationality. Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China. Lanham: Lexington Books.