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Kovács, O. (2026): Fred Block (2025). The Habitation Society. Creating Sustainable Prosperity. Agenda Publishing, Columbia University Press, p 192, Eastern Journal of European Studies, Vol. 17., No. 1, June 2026, pp. 351-358, https://doi.org/10.47743/ejes-2026-0117 Block’s book, beyond being an important milestone in contemporary political economy and progressive social theory, resonates precisely with the “enough” c

Kovács, O. (2026): Mastering the Spirited Horse: A Review of The Economics of Creative Destruction. Journal of Evolutionary Economics Vol. 36, 31 (2026), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-026-00956-7 The publication of The Economics of Creative Destruction (2023), edited by Ufuk Akcigit and John Van Reenen, represents a definitive summation of the endogenous growth revolution initiated by Philippe Aghion and Peter Howit

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

The 21st century started with the transubstantiation of the economic structure in the advanced world. Albeit the growing importance of services was already quite clear in the 1960s, modern services soared right after the revolution of information and communication technologies (ICT) from to the midst of 1970s. Importantly, the emerging new services economies, in which 60-80% of GNI stems from services, are pervaded b

While there is some optimistic judgement over the end of the 2008 financial and economic crisis – not to mention those voices advocating that the Great Recession was not really so great (Van Ours, 2015) –, there is a certain level of uncertainty encoded into the fragile recovery. If for no other reason than the European integration seems to suffering from non-convergence in many aspects between the core and the perip

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

Kovács, O. – Orosz, Á. (2011): Science and Technology Policy in the European Union – Innovation Leaders with Different Outcome. The Annals of the University of Oradea, Department of International Affairs. (February 2011) Our study attempts to contribute to the better understanding of the economic realization problem of the European higher education innovations by using the science and technology policy approach. The

Kovács, O. (2010): Fiskális fenntarthatóság és konszolidáció – Potugália és Finnország ellentmondásos esete (Fiscal Sustainability and Consolidation – The Contradictory Case of Finland and Portugal). Köz-Gazdaság, Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 167-188 The study focuses on consolidations which facilitate fiscal sustainability through the analysis of Portugal and Finland. On the basis of evidences stemming from the economic liter

Kovács, O. (2010): Will The Oil-Revenues Be Enough to Accelerate Kazakhstanian Transition Into a Much More Diversified Economy? News of the Month, ICEG European Center, January 2010 pp. 9-13. The first question of this article is even if it seems that Kazakhstan has been able to maintain its oil-oriented export activity for years, can we expect a heightening transformation into modern and divers industrial economy in