期刊名称：Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Economics and Business
电子版ISSN：2360-0047
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：79-82
DOI：10.2478/auseb-2020-0006
语种：English
出版社：Sciendo
摘要：Csaba Lentner, professor of economics and one of the leading economists in the service of the National Bank of Hungary, is the author of a uniquely large list of publications, which can be consulted on his homepage, at: www.lentnercsaba.com. He touches upon many aspects but especially issues of Hungarian economic history, banking, and state fi nances. These interests of his meet in this current volume, in which the author tries to provide a synthesis of the Hungarian state’s fi nancial affairs of the last roughly 150 years. As being such a historical work, covering a large period of time, it had to be divided into smaller parts. Accordingly, we can fi nd fi ve major periods from the political history of the Hungarian state: the period of the Austro-Hungarian dualist state from the Ausgleich (Compromise) until its last years of existence; the interwar period, with a special focus on the consolidation of fi nancial affairs by the Bethlen government; the era of the Socialist state-planned economy; the post-communist period of transition from 1989 until 2010; the post-2010 years, characterized by a series of fi nancial reforms during the successive Orbán governments and György Matolcsy’s presidency in the management of the Hungarian National Bank. Through this linearity, the author is basically realizing a connection between certain moments from the past of Hungary and its present. At the same time, the author is largely documenting historical decisions and processes which determined the evolution of the Hungarian economic life, within which the focus is especially on state fi nances, this later concept being embedded in the fi rst, larger one. The two methods are closely interrelated throughout the entire text, for example, in the case of the rearmament programme from Győr (1938) or the period of state planning, including the application of Új Gazdasági Mechanizmus (New Economic Mechanism) following the repressions of the 1956 revolution and the inauguration of the Kádár regime.
