By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey
By Janos Kornai
MIT Press £25.95, 461 pages
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Western economics has profited immeasurably from the influx of a remarkable group of emigre Austrians and Hungarians. The former group included giants such as Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Ludwig von Mises and Gottfried Haberler. All chose the US as their final destination.