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Kovács, O. (2025): A minőségi növekedés felé – a nemnövekedés értékelése (The Road to Qualitative Growth: Revisiting the Concept of Degrowth). Közgazdasági Szemle, Vol. 72., No. 1, January 2025, pp. 59-91, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.18414/K.2025.1.59  The concept of degrowth, which advocates more restrained quantitative economic growth, is mostly referred to as a sitcom theory in mainstream economics. The aim of this p

Kovacs, O. (2024). Toward qualitative growth: Exaptations, graphene and Industry 4.0. Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 74., no. 3, October 2024, pp. 277-298, https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2024.00014  This contribution aims to address the intriguing issue of whether Industry 4.0, as a techno-economic paradigm shifter, may have a greater potential for exaptation (i.e., using it not for pursuing of quantitative but that of qualitati

Title World Economy Scientific Council of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Meeting No. 24 Role Role: discussant Title of the presentation: Thoughts on the Paper of “Spanish Industry after the Financial Crisis – Challenges and Reactions” by Andrea Elteto  Recording: Meeting No. 24 Location Hybrid conference hosted by Hungarian Academy of Sciences, World Economy Scientific Council, 1051 Budap

Sass, M. – Kovács, O. – Jaksa, R. A. – Garbovan, L. – Hunya, G. (2015): White Paper: Moldova. Transfer of Know-how for Small and Mid-size Businesses in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. CASE Network Report No. 122 The report focuses on the potential of the development of small and mid-size businesses in Moldova. It provides an economic overview of the country, and then analyses various best practi

English version of the Book Review Kovács, O. (2015): Kołodko, G. W. (ed.) (2014): Management and Economic Policy for Development. Nova Science Publishers, New York. Society and Economy, Vol. 37., No. 1 pp. 132-136 In this book review, we argue that although no one can live under the delusion that growth and development would be the same, one should also accept the truism that we are far from having a ready-to-use mo