Professor
Hungary

Central European University (CEU)
1092 Budapest
Department of International Relations
and European Studies
1051 Budapest
Nádor u. 9
phone: (361) 327-3017, (361) 327-3079,
fax: (361) 327-3243,
e-mail: greskovi@ceu.hu

Current Position
Head of Department, and Professor of International Relations and European Studies, CEU

Education

1996 PhD in Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dissertation: "The Political Economy of Protest and Patience"

1980 University Doctorate in Economics, Budapest University of Economics, Dissertation: "Organizational History of the Hungarian Textile Industry from the 1940s to the 1960s"

1977 MA, Budapest University of Economics, National Planning, Analysis, and Economic Policy

1972-77 Full time undergraduate student at the Budapest University of Economics

Academic Appointments:

2003-2004 Visiting Professor at Social Studies, Harvard University

1999- Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies and Department of Political Science, CEU

1998-1999 Holder of the Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University

1992-1999 Associate Professor, Political Science Department, CEU

1996-97 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, CEU, Warsaw

1988-1992 Head of Research Department, and senior research fellow, KOPINT-DATORG, Institute for Economic and Market Research and Informatics

1982-1987 Research fellow, KOPINT-DATORG

1997-1982 Assistant Professor, Budapest University of Economics

Research

• Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery : working title of a book-project (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle). Cornell University Press expressed strong interest to publish the book in its political economy series edited by Peter Katzenstein in 2010.
• Enlargement of the Eurozone
• Political and social effects of different leading industries in Central and Eastern Europe
• Comparative studies of contention and civil society in Eastern Europe and East-Asia (with Grzegorz Ekiert, and Jan Kubik)
• Comparative studies of the politics of South American and Eastern European political and economic development, economic ideologies, politics of economic policy making

Teaching

Regularly taught MA and PhD courses at CEU:

• Theories of Political Economy, Approaches to Political Economy (AY 2004/05- 2006/07)
• The International Political Economy of Market Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (AY 2001/02, 2002/03)
• Transnational Enterprise and National Government: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment (AY 2001/02, 2006/07)
• Exposed to World Markets: The Political Economy of Sectors (AY 2001/02, 2002/03, 2004/05)
• Economy and Politics: Interaction over Time and Across Nations (AY 1992/93-1998/99)
• Politics of Economic Stabilization and Adjustment. Lessons from the Third World Experience(AY 1992/93-1998/99)
• Politics of Transforming State Socialist Economies (1992/93-1998/99)

Fellowships

11/2000 Research fellowship at the LASP of Universit é X-Nanterre

1997-98 Associated fellowship at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, member of the Focus Group "Interaction between Politics and Economic Policy" led by János Kornai

03/1995: National Resource Center Visiting Scholar in the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University

07-12/1992: Fellowship in the Economic Freedom Fellowship Program of the Pew Charitable Trust, at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., including a 2 months internship in the Department of Macroeconomy and Growth of the World Bank

01-03/1986: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung fellowship in the Federal Republic of Germany

University Service

2006-2008, and 1999-2002 Head of Department of International Relations and European Studies, CEU, member of several Senate committees

2001-2002 Member of CEU Senate, member of Academic Forum, several Senate committees, and CEU ad-hoc committees

1992-1996 Deputy Head of Political Science Department, CEU

Other Academic Activities

Reviewer for Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Political Economy, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Slavic Review

Member of Advisory Board of The Journal of Comparative Economic Studies

2005- Member of Editorial Board, and reviewer for West European Politics

2000- Member of Regional Advisory Panel on Eurasia of the Social Science Resarch Council (SSRC)

Member of Editorial Board, and reviewer for Studies in Comparative International Development

1997-1999 Member of the Committee on East European Studies (CEES) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

1994-98 Member of the Coordination Committee of the European Science Foundation (ESF) Network on Social Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

Publications

 Forthcoming:

“Banking on Identity: Central Bankers in Estonia and Hungary.” Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen, eds., The Changing World of European Central Banking: Internationalization and Europeanization. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, forthcoming.

“Hungary and Slovakia: Compliance and its Discontents.” Kenneth Dyson ed., European States and the Euro: The First Decade. Chapter 14, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008 forthcoming.

 Journal Articles:

 “Economic Woes and Political Disaffection.” Journal of Democracy Vol. 18, No. 4, October 2007, pp. 40-46.

“Leading Sectors and Leading Regions: Economic Restructuring and Regional Inequality in Hungary Since 1990”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 31.3 September 2007, pp. 522-542, (co-authored with David L. Brown, and László Kulcsár)

“The State, Internationalization, and Capitalist Diversity in Eastern Europe.” Competition and Change, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 89-114, (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“Neoliberalism, Embedded Neoliberalism, and Neocorporatism: Towards Transnational Capitalism in Central-Eastern Europe.” West European Politics, Vol. 30, No. 3, May 2007, pp. 443-466, (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“A transznacionális kapitalizmus változatai Kelet-Közép Európában.” Politikatudományi Szemle Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 7-32, in Hungarian (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“Capitalist Diversity in Eastern Europe.” Economic Sociology_the european electronic newsletter Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 3-9, (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“Solidarity, Identity, and the Contest of Democracy in Central-Eastern Europe.” Labor History, Vol. 48, No. 1, February 2007, pp. 89-96.

“Building a Democratic Market Society in Hungary.” Orbis, Vol. 50 (4). Fall 2006, pp. 621-627.

“Capitalism without Compromise: Strong Business and Weak Labor in Eastern Europe’s New Transnational Industries.” Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 41 (1). Spring 2006, pp. 3-25 (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle).

“Leading Sectors and the Varieties of Capitalism in Eastern Europe.” Actes de Gerpisa. 2005, 39, pp. 113-128.

“Ein Sozialmodell an der Grenze. Kapitalismus ohne Kompromiss.” (The Limits of a Social Model. Capitalism without Compromise.) Osteuropa, 5-6, 2004, pp. 372-386 (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“The Postsocialist Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.” Revista de Economia Politica / Brazilian Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 22(4). October/December 2002, pp. 15-30.

“Die Suche nach dem ‘wahren’ sozialistischen Bruttosozialprodukt.” (The Search for the ‘True’ Socialist GNP.) PROKLA. Zeitschrift fur kritische Sozialwissenschaft. 32. No. 2. Juni 2002. Heft 128, pp. 463-491.

“Development Paths on Europe’s Periphery: Hungary’s and Poland’s Return to Europe Compared.” Polish Sociological Review. 1 (133) 2001. pp. 3-27, (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle).

In Serbian, in Habitus, December 2000. pp. 121-146

“Economische globalisering en racisme in Europa” (Economic Globalization and Racism in Europe.) Noordzuid Cahier Vol. 26. No. 1. February 2001. pp. 41-57. (in Dutch)

“Les analyses concurrentes de la societ é de marché postcommuniste. Retour sur le passé d ’une controverse.” (Rival Views of Post-Communist Market Society. The Path-Dependence of Transitology.) Revue Francaise de Science Politique . Vol. 50. Nr. 4-5. 2000. pp. 713-747.

“The Political Impact of the Transformational Recession in East-Central Europe.” Emergo. Journal of Transforming Economies and Societies. Cracow University of Economics. Vol. 4. No. 1. Winter 1997. pp. 23-31.

"Crisis-Proof Democracy: On Failed Predictions and the Realities of Eastern Europe's Transformations", International Politics Vol. 34, No. 2. June 1997. pp. 193-210.

"On the Political Economics of Protest and Tolerance", Acta Oeconomica, Vol 48 (1-2), 1996. pp. 97-110.

"Populista átmenetprogramok Magyarországon", (Populist Transformation Programs in Hungary), 2000, Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1996. pp. 11-19. (in Hungarian)

"Válságtűrő demokráciák", (Crisis-Proof Democracies), Beszélő, Vol. III./I. No. 4. June 1996. pp. 29-42. (in Hungarian)

"Lehetséges-e más, mint neoliberális stratégia?" (Neoliberal Strategy: Is there Any Alternative to It?), Beszélő, Vol. III./I. No. 2. April 1996. pp. 44-52. (in Hungarian)

"Demagogic Populism in Eastern Europe?" Telos, Nr 102. Winter 1995. pp. 91-106.

"La Transformation Hongroise: grevistes de la faim, syndicalistes, et membres du gouvernement" (The Hungarian Transformation: Hungerstrikers, Trade Unionists, and the Members of the Government) in Cultures & Conflits, Nr. 17 printemps 1995. L'Harmattan. pp. 9-47. (in French)

“Latin-Amerika sorsára jut-e Kelet-Közép Európa?” Gazdasági reform és politikai stabilitás az új demokráciákban." (Is Latin America the Fate of East Central Europe? Economic Reform and Political Stability in the New Democracies.) Politikatudományi Szemle. (Review of Political Science) Vol. IV. No. 1. 1995. pp. 63-94. (in Hungarian)

“Szegény országok demokráciája.” (Democracy in Poor Countries). Társadalmi Szemle. Vol. L. No. 5. 1995. pp. 3-24. (in Hungarian)

“Nemzetközi sarcmodor?” (International conTributes?) Liget. 1994. 2. Pp. 91-95. (in Hungarian)

"Dominant Economy, Subordinated Politics. The Absence of Economic Populism in the Transition of Central-East-Europe." Sisyphus Social Studies Vol 2 (IX) IFis Publishers, IPS Publishers 1993. pp. 9-35.

"A gazdasági alkalmazkodás vesztesei és a kompenzáció" (The Losers of Economic Adjustment and their Compensation) Európa Fórum, 1993. III. 3. pp. 57-81. (in Hungarian)

"Politika-gazdasági szükséghelyzetben." (Politics in Economic Hard Times) Közgazdasági Szemle, 1993. 7-8. (in Hungarian)

"The Use of Compensation in Economic Adjustment Programs" Acta Oeconomica, 1993 No 3-4.

"Politika és gazdaság a kereskedelmi reformprogramokban" (Politics and the Economy in Trade Reforms) Közgazdasági Szemle, 1993. 3. Pp. 210-228. (in Hungarian)

"A 45-milliárdos exportfejlesztő hitelprogram (1976-80)" (The 45-"billion" Credit Program to Stimulate Exports) Külgazdaság 1988. 11. Pp. 48-63. (in Hungarian)

"Western Technology Policies and the Approach of the Hungarian Industrial Policy" in Tamás Földi, ed. World Economic Environment and the Hungarian Economy, Special Volume of Acta Oeconomica. 1988. Pp. 95-111.

"A magyar-lengyel kooperáció két esete" (Two Cases of the Hungarian-Polish Cooperation) co-authored with Katalin M áté Külgazdaság 1988. 7. Pp. 21-32. (in Hungarian)

"A nyugati technológiapolitikák és a magyar iparpolitikai szemlélet" (Western Technology Policies and the Approach of the Hungarian Industrial Policy) Külgazdaság 1988. 2-3. pp. 40-51. (in Hungarian)

"Piacorientált iparpolitika Hollandiában" (A Market-Oriented Industrial Policy in the Netherlands) Külgazdaság 1986. 11. Pp. 17-27. (in Hungarian)

"Fejlesztés és szelekció" (Development and Selection) Tervgazdasági Fórum 1986. 1. (in Hungarian)

"A fejlesztő állam két jellegzetes magatartásmódja a piacgazdaságban" (Two Characteristic Government Attitudes towards Development in Market Economies) Külgazdaság 1984. 7. pp. 18-31. (in Hungarian)

"Vállalatnagyság - vállalkozási forma" (Enterprise Size - Enterprise Form) Közgazdasági Szemle 1983. 2. (in Hungarian)

"Ellentmondásos értékek és értékes ellentmondások Polányi Károly elméleti rendszerében" (Contradictory Values and Valuable Contradictions in Karl Polányi's Work) Szociológia 1982. 2. pp. 201-215. (in Hungarian)

Monographs, Edited Volumes, and Chapters in Edited Volumes:

“Leading Sectors and the Variety of Capitalism in Eastern Europe.” John Pickles, ed., State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies. Chapter 2, Palgrave Macmillan 2007. pp. 2-46.

“Neoliberalismus, eingebetteter Neoliberalismus, und Neo-Korporatismus: Sozialistische Hinterlassenschaften, transnationale Integration und die Diversitaet osteuropaeischer Kapitalismen” Dieter Segert ed., Postsozialismus. Hinterlassenschaften des Staatssozialismus und neue Kapitalismen in Europa. Wien: Braumüller 2007. pp. 185-205. (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“Europeanization and the Variety of Competition States in Central-Eastern Europe.” Attila Ágh and Andrea Ferencz, eds., Deepening and Widening in an Enlarged Europe: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement. Budapest: ‘Together for Europe’ Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2006. pp. 245-286. (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“The First Shall Be the Last? Hungary’s Road to the EMU.” Kenneth Dyson, ed., Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. pp. 178-196.

“Beyond Transition: The Variety of Post-Socialist Development.” Ronald Dworkin et al. eds. From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition. Budapest. Central European University Press. 2003. 201-225.

“Sectors, States, and the Paths of Post-Socialist Development.” Nauro Campos and Jan Fidrmuc, eds., Political Economy of Transition and Development: Institutions, Politics and Policies. Chapter 5. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003. 99-120.

 “Economic Globalization and Racism in Eastern and Western Europe.” Laura Nader, Rik Pinxten and Ellen Preckler eds., Europe’s New Racism: Causes, Manifestations and Solutions (Volume 1, Culture and Politics, Politics and Culture) Evens Foundation, Berghahn. 2002.

“The Path-Dependence of Transitology.” With comments by Claus Offe and Valerie Bunce. Frank Bonker, Klaus Muller, and Andreas Pickel, eds., Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford. Rowman & Littlefield. 2002. 219-247.

“Brothers in Arms or Rivals in Politics? Top Politicians and Top Policy Makers in the Hungarian Transformation.” In J ános Kornai, Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman, eds., Reforming the State : Fiscal and Welfare Reforms in Post-Socialist Countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. 111-141.

“Hungary’s Post-Communist Development in Comparative Perspective.” Werner Baer and Joseph L. Love, eds., Liberalization and its Consequences. A Comparative Perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe. Cheltenham, U.K. Northampton, MA. U.S.A.: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. 126-150.

“Rival Views of Post-Communist Market Society. The Path-Dependence of Transitology.” Michel Dobry, ed., Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe. Lessons for the Social Sciences. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. Pp. 19-49.

“Verseng ő nézetek a kommunizmus utáni piaci társadalomról. ” Laki Mihály, Pete Péter és Vince Péter, szerk., Mindannyiunkban van valami közös. Lányi Kamilla születésnapjára. Budapest : KOPINT-DATORG Alapítvány, MTA Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet. 1999. 319-360. (in Hungarian)

Post-Socialist Institution Building . Sysiphus Social Studies Vol. XI. Warsaw: IfiS Publishers. 1999 (co-edited with Wladyslaw Adamski)

The Political Economy of Protest and Patience. East European and Latin American Transformations Compared Budapest: Central European University Press, 1998.

Social Structures in the Making Sisyphus Social Studies X. Warsaw: IFiS Publishers, 1997 (co-edited with Martin Baethge, and Wladyslaw Adamski).

“Kétarcú demokratikus kapitalizmus Magyarországon.” (The two faces of democratic capitalism in Hungary in Kurtán, S., Sándor, P. and Vass, L. szerk., Magyarország Évtizedkönyve 1988-1998. I. kötet. (Book on Hungary’s Last Decade. 1988-1998 Volume I.). Demokrácia Kutatások Magyar Központja Alapítvány. Budapest 1998. pp. 42-56. (in Hungarian)

"Social responses to neoliberal reforms in Eastern Europe in the 1990s", in Manus Midlarsky, ed., Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development, Cambridge University Press 1997. pp. 269-289.

“K ülföldi kereskedelmi reformprogramok és hatásuk a gazdaságra " in Lányi Kamilla and Szabó Judit eds. “ A nyitás gazdaságpolitikája. Importliberalizálási tapasztalatok." (Foreign Trade Reform Programs and their Economic Impact. in Policies for Opening up the Economy. Experiences with Import Liberalization.) KOPINT-DATORG, Foundation for Economic Research and Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1993. Pp. 11-59. (in Hungarian)

Hidak - de hová? Magyarország és a világkiállítás (Bridges - But Where They Lead? Hungary and the World Fair) co-edited and co-authored with Zsuzsa Borszéki and Éva Palócz, Budapest: Heti Világgazdaság Kiadói Rt., 1990. (in Hungarian)

"The Hungarian Credit Program to Stimulate Exports" in András Rába and Karl-Ernst Schenk eds., Investment System and Foreign Trade Implications in Hungary, Stuttgart and New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1987. pp. 189-229.

Working papers:

“Capital, Labor and the Prospects for the European Social Model in the East.” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Harvard University. Program on Central & Eastern Europe. Working Paper Series # 58. 2004. Cambridge. MA (co-authored with Dorothee Bohle)

“From the Socialist Core to the Capitalist Periphery: Hungary in Comparative Perspective.” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Harvard University. Program on Central & Eastern Europe. Working Paper Series # 49. 1999. Cambridge. MA.

“Consolidating Economic Reforms: The Hungarian Experience with Lessons for Poland.” Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). Warsaw. CASE-CEU Working Paper Series, no. 31. 1999.

“Brothers-in-Arms or Rivals in Politics? Top Politicians and Top Policy Makers in the Hungarian Transformation.” Collegium Budapest. Institute for Advanced Study. Discussion paper No. 55. Budapest, November 1998.

“Rival views of postcommunist market society.” Institute for European Studies Working Paper 98.5. Cornell University. Ithaca NY. 1998.

"Hungerstrikers, the Unions, the Government and the Parties. A Case-Study of Hungarian Transformation: Conflict, the Social Pact and Democratic Development" Occasional Papers in European Studies 6. Centre for European Studies. University of Essex. 1995.

"Ist the East becoming the South? Where threats to reforms may come from?" Institute for European Studies Working Paper Series, Cornell University 1995.

Commentary:

"Latin-amerikanizálódik-e Közép-Kelet-Európa és Magyarország? Keleten türelemre ítélve - esély a stabilitásra" Napi Gazdaság 1995 március 1.

"Nem a nulláról kell indulni" (We Needn't Start from the Zero Point) Figyelõ, 1989 February, 9.

"Gazdasági populizmus. Népelméjű kísérlet." (Economic Populism. People-minded Experiments.) Heti Világgazdaság 1993. March, 17.

"Nagy Nemzeti Meglepetés" (Big National Surprise) HetiVilággazdaság 1990 June, 30.

"Jobb soha, mint későn" (Better Late than Never) Heti Világgazdaság 1990 May, 12.

"A lecsúszó középréteg" (Middle-Class Going Bust) Figyelő 1990 January,18.

"Nincs harang" (There is no Bell) co-authored with Zsuzsa Borszéki, Figyelő 1989 December 7.

"A gazdasági romlás virágai" (Flowers of Economic Decline) co-authored with György Such, Figyelő, 1989 May 25.

"Tényleg felkészületlen a magyar fogyasztó?" (The Hungarian Consumer: Is He Really Unprepared?) Figyelő, 1989 April 4.

Languages

native Hungarian, excellent English, excellent German, some Polish, some Russian