Janos Kornai

Janos Kornai was a Hungarian economist and Nobel laureate who made significant contributions to the field of economics, particularly in the areas of game theory and the economics of socialism. He was born in 1928 in Budapest, Hungary, and studied economics at the University of Budapest. Kornai went on to become a prominent figure in the field of economics, publishing numerous papers and books on topics such as the economics of socialism and the behavior of economic systems. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 for his work on the economics of change.