Abstract
In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung 2019. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, pp. 173–187.
Starting in the 1950s, global economic disparities caused increasing political and economic concern on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Anxiety about this matter gave rise to divergent ideas about the best way of mitigating these inequalities. Among the sources of these ideas were the Center for African and Asian Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and its successor, the Institute for World Economy, which were seen as a major hub of developmental thinking. This essay evaluates the impact of the Hungarian institute, focusing on the research it did to help curtail underdevelopment in the postcolonial world. The essay highlights the ideas of Tamás Szentes, a renowned professor as well as a senior researcher at these institutes, who gained international renown for his research on this phenomenon.
Über den Autor
Bence Kocsev, geb. 1987 in Nagyatád (Ungarn). Studium der Geschichte und Soziologie, Magister in Geschichte an der Eötvös Loránd Universität (Budapest, Ungarn). Derzeit Doktorand an der Universität Leipzig und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1199 »Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen«. Forschungsinteressen: Ost-Süd-Beziehungen während des Kalten Krieges, sozialistische Partizipation an den Debatten um die sogenannte Neue Internationale Wirtschaftsordnung.