For several decades, the German automotive industry has been under mounting pressure to reorganiz... more For several decades, the German automotive industry has been under mounting pressure to reorganize its production processes and its modes of value-chain governance. In this paper, we analyze the effects this restructuring has had on the economic development of the Central and Eastern European countries that have specialized in automotive production during the capitalist transition. We focus on two global market forces: the standardization of the production of electric engines and the changing patterns of international trade regulation, mostly under the German neo-mercantilist trade regime. Our hypothesis is that structures of dependent development are reproduced by the forms of vertical specialization that have emerged in the automotive industry in these countries. To prove this, we combine the theory of global value chains with Vernon’s product life-cycle theory.
The global automotive industry has been exposed to an overproduction crisis for several decades. ... more The global automotive industry has been exposed to an overproduction crisis for several decades. Under the pressure of restructuring, automotive companies renew both the geographical scope and the technological standardization of their production processes. We analyze the effects this restructuring had on the development of European economies in order to understand whether vertical specializations in the automotive value chain can lead to Central and Eastern European countries' catching up to advanced economies, or whether such specializations reproduce new forms of core-periphery relations. In order to answer this question, we introduce a new methodological approach to understand vertical specialization in the global value chain from a semi-peripheral perspective. We combine the theory of global value chains with Vernon's product life-cycle theory. In the research we focus on the standardization of the production of electric engines behind the geographical relocation of production between core and periphery.
In our analysis of Comecon's role in the capitalist world system, we gauge its member nations' jo... more In our analysis of Comecon's role in the capitalist world system, we gauge its member nations' joint and individual opportunities to take advantage of global processes of modernization and describe the systemic contradictions that hampered their efforts to integrate themselves into a common market. We examine the developmental history of the Comecon countries through the lens of semiperipheral dependent development, that is, from the perspective that these countries' relative positions in the international division of labor limited their access to advanced technology and external financing. In the course of the economic reforms of the 1960s, authorities in the Comecon countries attempted to reduce their dependence on the world system by means of complementary specialization. Regionally dominant world economic forces, however, both obstructed the evolution of this cooperative system and intensified the economic competition among Comecon's member states.
A tanulmány a Kölcsönös Gazdasági Segítség Tanácsát a tőkés világrendszer részeként mutatja be, é... more A tanulmány a Kölcsönös Gazdasági Segítség Tanácsát a tőkés világrendszer részeként mutatja be, és azon keresztül mutat rá a tagországok együttes és egymástól független globális modernizációs lehetőségeire, és azokra az ebből következő ellentmondásokra, amelyek miatt az integrációs kísérlet félúton megrekedt. Szemben a klasszikus hidegháborús diskurzusokkal, a KGST országok fejlődéstörténetét nem ideológiai alapon, hanem a nemzetközi munkamegosztáson belüli félperifériás függő fejlődést meghatározó tényezők alapján közelítjük. Két ilyen tényező vizsgálata kap nagyobb hangsúlyt, a fejlett technológiához és a külső finanszírozáshoz való hozzáférés. A KGST a hatvanas évek reformfolyamataiban a félperifériás függést a kölcsönös és komplementer szakosodás jegyében próbálta oldani. Az integráció részben azért rekedt meg félúton, mert a térség országaira ható világgazdasági erők nem csak ellehetetlenítették a komplementer szerkezet kialakíthatóságát, de fel is erősítették a hasonló fejlettségi szinten mozgó országok közötti kompetitív viszonyokat. A KGST integrációjának története korszakon túlnyúló tanulságokkal is szolgál a modernizációs célkitűzéseket maguk elé állító integrációs kísérletek számára.
Our research aims at examining developments in the disciplines of geography, philosophy, economic... more Our research aims at examining developments in the disciplines of geography, philosophy, economics, pedagogy, psychology and sociology between 1953–1974 in Hungary. In addition to analyzing scientific and institutional contexts, it will explore their impact on policy issues regarding the economy, culture, spatial planning, and educational, housing and roma policies. The originality of this research is that it will analyze disciplinary history in parallel with relevant changes in the economy, politics and society. Historical studies of science so far tend to analyze disciplines separately, emphasizing their turning points resulting from macro-political and economic ruptures, or situating them in regional or global contexts in the history of ideas. Our research, however, looks at the history of social sciences in terms of both the contents of produced knowledge and institutional structures as consequences of wider social changes in society. This project examines social changes of the period not from the view of inherent features of socialism in Hungary, or relevant major geopolitical events, but considers the social order of the nation-state as an integrated product of long-term global economic interactions. This research situates the debates about the possibilities and reform ideas of socialism in Hungary into this wider framework, and provides an overview of the transition of Hungarian social sciences in a period, when the embeddedness of Hungarian society into the global context changes, and its inner structures undergo deep transformation. The expected results will hopefully contribute to the history of scientific knowledge and the sociology of knowledge.
Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a l... more Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a large group of my friends have put together a collection now that I passed that numerical hurdle. I am honored and humbled.
Reindustrialization in Eastern Europe became spectacular after the global crisis of 2008. Our res... more Reindustrialization in Eastern Europe became spectacular after the global crisis of 2008. Our research question is whether this change is a ’catching up’ model for Eastern European semi-peripheral states. Our hypothesis is that the historical process of integration is highly determined by the access to technology and capital. We focus on two mechanisms of the integration: external finances and the changing pattern of the division of labor. With respect to the former, we distinguish three periods, each of which is partly characterized by a distinctive form of external finance: international loans during socialism, foreign direct investment in the post-socialist era and the most current EU-transfers. With respect to the latter, we focus on the automotive industry that has been increasingly exposed to those global forces that induce relocation from core production-sites to Eastern Europe. We argue that analyzing Hungarian industrial and financial development demonstrates how the integration of this country into the international division of labor means a new version of dependency.
For several decades, the German automotive industry has been under mounting pressure to reorganiz... more For several decades, the German automotive industry has been under mounting pressure to reorganize its production processes and its modes of value-chain governance. In this paper, we analyze the effects this restructuring has had on the economic development of the Central and Eastern European countries that have specialized in automotive production during the capitalist transition. We focus on two global market forces: the standardization of the production of electric engines and the changing patterns of international trade regulation, mostly under the German neo-mercantilist trade regime. Our hypothesis is that structures of dependent development are reproduced by the forms of vertical specialization that have emerged in the automotive industry in these countries. To prove this, we combine the theory of global value chains with Vernon’s product life-cycle theory.
The global automotive industry has been exposed to an overproduction crisis for several decades. ... more The global automotive industry has been exposed to an overproduction crisis for several decades. Under the pressure of restructuring, automotive companies renew both the geographical scope and the technological standardization of their production processes. We analyze the effects this restructuring had on the development of European economies in order to understand whether vertical specializations in the automotive value chain can lead to Central and Eastern European countries' catching up to advanced economies, or whether such specializations reproduce new forms of core-periphery relations. In order to answer this question, we introduce a new methodological approach to understand vertical specialization in the global value chain from a semi-peripheral perspective. We combine the theory of global value chains with Vernon's product life-cycle theory. In the research we focus on the standardization of the production of electric engines behind the geographical relocation of production between core and periphery.
In our analysis of Comecon's role in the capitalist world system, we gauge its member nations' jo... more In our analysis of Comecon's role in the capitalist world system, we gauge its member nations' joint and individual opportunities to take advantage of global processes of modernization and describe the systemic contradictions that hampered their efforts to integrate themselves into a common market. We examine the developmental history of the Comecon countries through the lens of semiperipheral dependent development, that is, from the perspective that these countries' relative positions in the international division of labor limited their access to advanced technology and external financing. In the course of the economic reforms of the 1960s, authorities in the Comecon countries attempted to reduce their dependence on the world system by means of complementary specialization. Regionally dominant world economic forces, however, both obstructed the evolution of this cooperative system and intensified the economic competition among Comecon's member states.
A tanulmány a Kölcsönös Gazdasági Segítség Tanácsát a tőkés világrendszer részeként mutatja be, é... more A tanulmány a Kölcsönös Gazdasági Segítség Tanácsát a tőkés világrendszer részeként mutatja be, és azon keresztül mutat rá a tagországok együttes és egymástól független globális modernizációs lehetőségeire, és azokra az ebből következő ellentmondásokra, amelyek miatt az integrációs kísérlet félúton megrekedt. Szemben a klasszikus hidegháborús diskurzusokkal, a KGST országok fejlődéstörténetét nem ideológiai alapon, hanem a nemzetközi munkamegosztáson belüli félperifériás függő fejlődést meghatározó tényezők alapján közelítjük. Két ilyen tényező vizsgálata kap nagyobb hangsúlyt, a fejlett technológiához és a külső finanszírozáshoz való hozzáférés. A KGST a hatvanas évek reformfolyamataiban a félperifériás függést a kölcsönös és komplementer szakosodás jegyében próbálta oldani. Az integráció részben azért rekedt meg félúton, mert a térség országaira ható világgazdasági erők nem csak ellehetetlenítették a komplementer szerkezet kialakíthatóságát, de fel is erősítették a hasonló fejlettségi szinten mozgó országok közötti kompetitív viszonyokat. A KGST integrációjának története korszakon túlnyúló tanulságokkal is szolgál a modernizációs célkitűzéseket maguk elé állító integrációs kísérletek számára.
Our research aims at examining developments in the disciplines of geography, philosophy, economic... more Our research aims at examining developments in the disciplines of geography, philosophy, economics, pedagogy, psychology and sociology between 1953–1974 in Hungary. In addition to analyzing scientific and institutional contexts, it will explore their impact on policy issues regarding the economy, culture, spatial planning, and educational, housing and roma policies. The originality of this research is that it will analyze disciplinary history in parallel with relevant changes in the economy, politics and society. Historical studies of science so far tend to analyze disciplines separately, emphasizing their turning points resulting from macro-political and economic ruptures, or situating them in regional or global contexts in the history of ideas. Our research, however, looks at the history of social sciences in terms of both the contents of produced knowledge and institutional structures as consequences of wider social changes in society. This project examines social changes of the period not from the view of inherent features of socialism in Hungary, or relevant major geopolitical events, but considers the social order of the nation-state as an integrated product of long-term global economic interactions. This research situates the debates about the possibilities and reform ideas of socialism in Hungary into this wider framework, and provides an overview of the transition of Hungarian social sciences in a period, when the embeddedness of Hungarian society into the global context changes, and its inner structures undergo deep transformation. The expected results will hopefully contribute to the history of scientific knowledge and the sociology of knowledge.
Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a l... more Being any age, even such a "round number" as 60, is not a virtue but a condition. -- And yet, a large group of my friends have put together a collection now that I passed that numerical hurdle. I am honored and humbled.
Reindustrialization in Eastern Europe became spectacular after the global crisis of 2008. Our res... more Reindustrialization in Eastern Europe became spectacular after the global crisis of 2008. Our research question is whether this change is a ’catching up’ model for Eastern European semi-peripheral states. Our hypothesis is that the historical process of integration is highly determined by the access to technology and capital. We focus on two mechanisms of the integration: external finances and the changing pattern of the division of labor. With respect to the former, we distinguish three periods, each of which is partly characterized by a distinctive form of external finance: international loans during socialism, foreign direct investment in the post-socialist era and the most current EU-transfers. With respect to the latter, we focus on the automotive industry that has been increasingly exposed to those global forces that induce relocation from core production-sites to Eastern Europe. We argue that analyzing Hungarian industrial and financial development demonstrates how the integration of this country into the international division of labor means a new version of dependency.
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