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Innowacje i dynamika. Zależności pomiędzy systemami a postępem technologicznym

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Kornai J.
Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance
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2009
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issue 4(10)
5-37
PL
Znakomity węgierski ekonomista János Kornai porównuje socjalizm i kapitalizm pod względem ich innowacyjności. Zdaniem Kornaia nie badano dotychczas kompleksowo interakcji między zmianą systemową a zmianą myślenia o tworzeniu nowych produktów i nowych technologii i korzystaniu z nich. Autor stosuje termin "postęp technologiczny", interpretując go jako o wiele szersze zjawisko - część modernizacji, generującej głębokie zmiany w naszym życiu codziennym. Analizując pojęcie procesu innowacyjnego, wynalazku i innowacji oraz ich upowszechnienia, odwołuje się do poglądów Josepha Schumpetera na naturę kapitalizmu. Tylko system kapitalistyczny zdolny jest w pełni korzystać z możliwości rozwojowych, jakie stwarza proces innowacyjny. Właśnie ten proces nadaje kapitalizmowi największą dynamikę. Szybki wzrost innowacyjności i zwiększenie dynamiki nie są zjawiskami przypadkowymi, ale mocno zakorzenioną systemowo specyficzną własnością kapitalizmu. W socjalizmie niezdolność do kreowania nowych, rewolucyjnych produktów i zacofanie w innych wymiarach postępu technicznego jest również specyfiką systemową.
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In his essay, the great Hungarian economist János Kornai compares the level of innovativeness of capitalism and socialism. In Kornai's opinion, no comprehensive studies have been made so far on interactions between a system change and changes in our way of thinking on creating and using new products and new technologies. Kornai uses the term 'technological progress' in a much wider sense, as a very general phenomenon, a part of modernization, bringing profound changes to our everyday lives. In his analysis of the notions of the innovation process, invention, innovation and diffusion, the author refers to Joseph Schumpeter's approach toward the nature of capitalism, and argues that only the capitalist system is fully capable of benefitting from the opportunities of development offered by the innovation process, which has made capitalism the most dynamic system of all. A rapid increase of innovativeness and dynamism is not a random phenomenon, but a deeply rooted system-specific property of capitalism. The inability of the socialist system to create groundbreaking new products, and its general technological backwardness are also a deeply rooted system-specific property.
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Some system-specific features of capitalism

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Kornai J.
Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)
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2008
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vol. 55
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issue 5
377-394
EN
The author previously applied the outlook and methodology he named the system paradigm to analysing the socialist system and post-socialist transition. This study takes the same approach to some general attributes of capitalism. After clarifying some concepts, the author presents examples of some system-specific features of capitalism, before addressing two of them in detail. One is the dynamism of the system. The great innovations of the last century that radically altered both the technology of production and people's daily lives were all introduced and disseminated by the capitalist system and its protagonist, the entrepreneur. Only under capitalism can the mechanism of entrepreneurship and innovation emerge, with the strong incentives and flexible capital market they require. The other immanent feature is a chronic surplus on the labour market that contrasts sharply with the chronic labour shortage prevalent under the mature socialist system. Theory and experience confirm that the faster the ongoing transformation of a capitalist economy proceeds, the greater the propensity for structural unemployment to appear. It is explained by the efficiency pay hypothesis how an employer has an incentive to pay more than a market-clearing wage, thereby introducing unemployment. Capitalism is a system that can be reformed, but attention needs paying to relations between reforms of different parts of the system. In fortunate cases they complement each other, but it is commoner to find that tackling one unfavourable tendency only allows another such tendency to increase.
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The soft budget constraint syndrome in the hospital sector

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Kornai J.
Kozgazdasagi Szemle (Economic Review)
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2008
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vol. 55
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issue 12
1037-1056
EN
Researches so far have examined mainly how the soft budget constraint syndrome appears in the corporate sphere and the credit system. This article concentrates on the hospital sector. It describes the motivations and the contradictory behaviour of the five main types of participant in the events: patients, doctors, hospital managers, politicians, and hospital owners. The motivations explain why the propensity to overspend and the tendency to soften the budget constraint are so strong. The burdens of overspending and indebtedness are pushed upwards at every level of the decision-making and funding processes. The article considers the connection between the soft budget constraint syndrome and the various forms of ownership (state ownership and the non-profit and for-profit forms of non-state ownership). Finally, the phenomenon is examined from the normative point of view: what are the favourable and unfavourable consequences of hardening the budget constraint and how these are reflected in the consciousness of the participants in the normative dilemmas and events.
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