Draft:József Móczár

The native form of this personal name is Móczár József. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

József Móczár
Born	(1946-03-30) 30 March 1946 Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Citizenship	Hungarian
Spouse	Ueda Masako (1984-1994).
Children	Attila (1986–) Krisztián (1990–)
Academic career
Alma mater	Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (1964-1968)
Influences	János Kornai, Valery L. Makarov, Masanao Aoki, Takuma Yasui, Hukukane Nikaido, Ilya Prigogine, E. Roy Weintraub, Richard M. Goodwin, Richard H. Day.
Awards	Széchenyi Professorial Fellowship 1999-2003
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Joseph Móczár (Kiskunfélegyháza, March 30, 1946), doctor of economic sciences at HAS (2011), PhD at Osaka University (1994), full university professor (1994-2016), professor emeritus (2016-) of Corvinus University of Budapest.

Life path

Joseph Móczár (March 30, 1946, Kiskunfélegyháza Hungary), doctor of economic sciences at HAS (2011), PhD at Osaka University (1994), full university professor (1994-2016), professor emeritus (2016-) of Corvinus University of Budapest. He studied with outstanding results throughout and obtained his excellent (testimonium maturitatis) at the Sándor Petőfi Gymnasium in Kiskunfélegyháza. It was founded a few years before his admission from the city's long-established Teachers’ Training College, retaining the infrastructure and the entire teaching staff. It became one of the best gymnasiums in Hungary, with excellent teachers. He successfully participated in gymnasium county competitions in mathematics and Russian. The excellent testimonium maturitatis received from the Latin language ensured his classical education. The gymnasium's extremely high educational standard and intellectual culture were decisive for him both in his later studies and academic career. He continued his university studies at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (in further, KMUES) in Budapest, in the five-year program of planning and mathematics from 1964 (with outstanding results, with a People's Republic Scholarship in 1965-1966 and 1967-1968). It was an elite course with a small number of students, who were selected through rigorous admissions, whose sample was the indicative planning course at the Sorbonne, and which was founded in 1960 by Professors Imre László and Béla Krekó with an excellent educational program. József Móczár (2019): Barabás' laws of success, networks and public funds in Hungarian science, Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 64. No. 1. pp. 111-126, Research Gate, Academia.edu (In 1968, the course was no longer started.) The timetable included primary subjects in mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science, logic, philosophy, and economics. The curriculum was taught by excellent instructors in highly stable and interdependent subjects such as planning, advanced mathematics, and computer technology. János Kornai's two-year professional seminar allowed him to synthesize and raise what he had learned to a higher level, as well as to learn about the latest results of Western schools. After graduating, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Economic Planning of KMUES. During this period, at the request of the head of the department, Professor János László, he held seminars on economic policy and economic management, for full-time students, which helped him see economics as a social science, and mathematical models, econometric tests, and computer simulations as essential analytical tools. His non-university research work also pointed in this direction. The National Planning Office's Institute of Planning Economy participated in the development of complex programs of national economic planning in the second half of the 1970s. In 1976, he translated from Russian into Hungarian A. P. Fedorenko's book Complex National Economic Planning, which KJK published. This international program-team consisted of researchers from the academic institutes of the various COMECON countries to develop new methods for improving national economic planning. The research was coordinated by CEMI (Central Economic Mathematics Institute) in Moscow. Team research in two areas, economic policy, and the development of complex programs, was very important in his career. At that time, he learned the importance of empirical analyses. (He also had an excellent opportunity to do this in practice in 1979, when he spent two months in Malta, at the Mid-Med Bank, as an AIESEC trainee.) He reached the next milestone in his career when his articles on the von Neumann model and the turnpike theory were published in 1980 by Sigma (edited by Béla Martos) and the University Review, thanks to which he had the opportunity to apply for the Japanese government scholarship. (Mombusho). As part of the scholarship, he spent the next two years (1981–1983) at the ISER research institute at Osaka University, where he could learn from world-renowned professors such as Jinkichi Tsukui, Masanao Aoki, Takuma Yasui. In the first semester, he participated in intensive Japanese language training at Osaka Gaikoku Daigaku, which he completed with a successful language exam. In Japan, he had to realize that although he still considered the economic planning and mathematics training at KMUES to be very good, they had learned very little about the theories and mathematical methods of Western economic schools. Seeing this deficiency, he spent his days in the ISER institute library studying hard while intensively consulting with Professors Jinkichi Tsukui, Ken-Ichi Inada and Kiyoshi Kuga, participated in Professor Masanao Aoki's PhD course in control theory, visited Professor Masahiko Aoki at Kyoto University, and Professor Hiroshi Atsumi at the University of Tsukuba. The international outlook was provided by professors from highly ranked American and European universities, who presented their latest research results at research seminars held every two weeks at the Institute ISER. In 1991, the director of ISER, Professor Chikashi Moriguchi invited him as a visiting research professor. He contacted the mathematician-economist Professor Hukukane Nikaido, who was already conducting dynamic research instead of static analysis. Under the influence of Nikaido, he switched to the study of dynamics and evolution. He researched Newtonian, classical and quantum dynamics, and chaos theories during his visiting professorship. High-ranking international journals (Q1 and Q2) published his results, Móczár, J. (1991): Irreducible balanced and unbalanced growth paths (Business cycles and structural changes), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, No. 2. pp: 159-176. Research Gate, Academia.edu and Osaka University awarded him a PhD in economics for the 'hakase ronbun' submitted in 1994. With an expanded version of his dissertation, Móczár, J. (1995): Cyclical or turnpike growth: capital accumulation choices in some reducible von Neumann models, Society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe, Vol.17. No. 4. pp: 32-191, JSTOR, Research Gate, Academia.edu he was among the first to obtain a habilitation in 1994 at the Budapest University of State Management and Economics. In the same year, he received the appointment of full university professor. After that, dynamics was still his primary research direction; he wrote articles and studies, then spent the 1996/97 academic year as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he researched with Professor Richard Day. In 1993 and 1994, short-period foreign scholarships provided an excellent basis for the academic year spent in the USA and the Fulbright scholarship: with the Tempus and Giovanni Agnelli scholarships, he spent 2-3 months at the Universities of Sienna, Groningen, Leuven, Venice, and Vienna, where he worked with professors (R. M. Goodwin, F. Hahn, L. Punzo, H. Nüsse, A. Medio, etc.) who researched and wrote their then mainstream studies in the field of dynamics. The one-month professor exchange program at Hosei University in Tokyo and Corvinus University of Budapest, on several occasions, was also decisive in his academic career. He taught in the 2000s as a full professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He did intensive research with the support of the Széchenyi Professor's Scholarship, which he received from 1999 until 2003. His results were published in the 600-page book "Chapters from Modern Economic Science" in 2008 by Akadémiai Kiadó. The book served as the basis for his Academic Doctoral Dissertation; In 2011, he obtained the scientific degree of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2016, he has been an emeritus professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest; he is still actively researching and teaching while publishing in prestigious journals: Móczár, J. (2019): Arrow-Debreu Model of General Equilibrium and Kornai's Critique in the Light of Neoclassical Economics, Journal of Banking, Finance, and Sustainable Development, Vol. 1. No.1. pp: 43-68, Research Gate, Academia.edu Móczár, J. (2020): Nöther's Theorem and the Lie Symmetries in the Goodwin Model, In Szidarovszky, F. - G. I. Bischi (eds): Games and Dynamics in Economics, Springer Nature Singapore Pte. Ltd., Research Gate, Academia.edu

His Work

In the 1970s, he developed independent semesters with Input-output analysis and Dynamic economic models subjects and prepared notes for the students. He led seminars on the core subject of Economic Management and Economic Policy. For several years, he taught, in Szeged, Economic Planning, Mathematical Analysis, Linear Algebra and Operations Research at the external faculty of the KMUES. He focused on dynamic economics, including linear and non-linear dynamic economic models, cycles and turnpikes, non-equilibrium states, bifurcations, and complex dynamics (chaos). His research resulted in new subjects, Introduction to economic dynamics and Applied Macroeconomics and the National Scientific Research Fund application, which he submitted and was accepted in 1992. In the 2000s, he developed the subjects of Dynamic macroeconomics and Dynamic optimization models, which are based on variation calculation, functional analysis, and dynamic programming. The Ramsey – Neumann – Haavelmo triad occupies a central place in his curriculum, whose results also determine the theoretical issues of modern economics. Between 1981 and 1983, he studied mathematical models of long-term equilibrium economic growth (turnpike) at ISER, under the supervision of Professor Jinkichi Tsukui. In 1991, he held a visiting research professorship at the ISER, where he began to study the economic issues of disequilibrium dynamics. Studying the works of Ilya Prigogine convinced him to study economics as a multidisciplinary discipline using physical, chemical, and biological processes. This was confirmed by the neoclassical economist Alfred Marshall, who believed in energy and biological economics and argued that "the economy is the protagonist of an evolutionary process in which technology, market institutions, and people's preferences evolve along with people's behaviour." Richard M. Goodwin's cyclical growth model. Goodwin, M. R. (1967): A growth cycle, in Feinstein, C.H. (ed.) Socialism, Capitalism, and Economic Growth, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK is based on the Lotka-Volterra ecological model, which was preceded by his one-year physics study. And this study drew attention to the importance of self-organization, that is, to instability, bifurcation, and evolution in the dynamic examination of the economy. From 1992, with a TEMPUS and G. Agnelli scholarship, he spent 2-3 months at the Universities of Siena, Venice Ca' Foscara, Groningen and Leuven, where he studied the theoretical models of cycles, instability, bifurcation, and chaos. His original equilibrium theories formulated in reducible economies were published in prestigious international journals (Metroeconomica, Economic Systems Research, Japan and the World Economy, etc.). He is the author of more than 140 significant scientific articles, studies, books, book chapters and invited lectures. His Erdős index: 3. Member of the editorial board of the Public Finance Quarterly and the International Journal of Technology, Modelling and Management. His educational activities were recognized with a certificate of recognition from the minister and the award "Excellent teacher". Knowledge of foreign languages: Russian, English, and Japanese. His PhD students: Viktor Várpalotai in 2009 and Endre Morvai in 2015.

Academic degrees, titles

• 1971 dr. univ., KMUES
• 1987 candidate, HAS
• 1994 PhD, Osaka University
• 1994 Dr. Habil, CUB
• 2011 DSc, HAS

His Jobs

• 1969–1973 KMUES, Department of National Economy Planning, assistant professor
• 1974–1987 KMUES, National Economic Planning Institute, university assistant professor
• 1988–1993, CUB, Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, associate professor
• 1994–2016, CUB, Department of Mathematical Economics and Economic Analysis, Department of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, full university professor
• 2016– Professor emeritus of Corvinus University of Budapest

The subjects he taught

• Input-Output models
• Multi-period planning models
• National economic planning and management
• Mathematical Analysis
• Probability theory
• Linear algebra
• Operations research
• Mathematical economic models
• Introduction to economic dynamics
• Applied macroeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• International economics
• Macroeconomic analysis and economic stabilization policies
• Dynamic macroeconomics
• Dynamic optimization models

His involvement in public life

• 1973-1988 János Neumann Society for Computer Science, Secretary of the Department of Operations Research
• 1997- Member of the Hungarian Economic Society
• 1992- Member of Pan Pacific Input-Output Society
• 1992-1995 National Higher Education and Science Council, Economic Higher Education Committee
• 2011-2021- Public Finance Quarterly, Editorial Board Member, and columnist
• 2010- International Journal of Technology, Modelling and Management, Member of Editorial Board
• 1991–1993 Faculty Curriculum Committee, CUB
• 1992–1995 Chairman of the Council of Public Employees, CUB
• 1996–2002 Member of the Habilitation Committee, CUB
• He has been a regular member of the CUB Doctoral School since 1998, and an emeritus member since 2016

Notable works

• József Móczár. The Library of Hungarian Scientific Works database published 119 works. The number of independent citations of all his scientific publications and works is 156. The number of his scientific publications published abroad is 19. The number of his monographs and specialist books is 5.
• József Móczár. Web of Science published 6 studies. (Accessed: May 9, 2021)
• Data of József Móczár's 27 publications. OSZK. Catalog.
• József Móczár. JSTOR: Search Results. www.jstor.org. (Accessed: July 13, 2021)
• "Irreducible balanced and unbalanced growth paths: Business cycles and structural changes," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 2(1), pages 159-176, June. 1991, Research Gate, Academia.edu
• "Anatomy and Lessons of the Global Financial Crisis," Public Finance Quarterly, vol. 55(4), pages 753-775. 2010. Research Gate, Academia.edu
• Reducible von Neumann models and Uniqueness, Metroeconomica, Vol.46, pp. 1-15.
• "Arrow-Debreu Model versus Kornai-critique," Athens Journal of Business & Economics, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), vol. 3(2), pages 143-170, April. 2017. Research Gate, Academia.edu
• "János Kornai, and Neoclassical versus Institutional Economics," Acta Oeconomica, Akademia Kiadó, Hungary, 2018. vol. 68 (supplement) pages 73-83, January, Research Gate, Academia.edu, WoS
• "Barabási-Type Laws of Success, Networks and Public Funds in Hungarian Science". Public Finance Quarterly, vol. 64(1), pages 110-127. 2019. Research Gate, Academia.edu, VoS
• “Non-Uniqueness Through Duality in the von Neumann Growth Models “, Metroeconomica, 1997, Vol. 48, pp. 280–299. Blackwell Publ. Co. Research Gate, Academia.edu

• “Balanced and Unbalanced Growth Paths in a Decomposable Economy: Contributions to the Theory of Multiple Turnpikes “, Economic System Research, 1992, Vol.3, pp. 211–222. (Co-author: J. Tsukui). Carfax Publ. Co. Research Gate, Academia.edu
• „Cyclical or turnpike growth: capital accumulation choices in some reducible von Neumann models”, Society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe, 1995, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 32–191, JSTOR, Research Gate, Academia.edu
• ”Growth paths developed by international trade in the Leontief-type dynamic models, Japan and the World Economy”, 1998, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 111-133.
• ”Ergodic Versus Uncertain Financial Processes. Part I: Ergodic Hypothesis and Uncertainty in Financial Theory.” Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. LXII, No. 3. pp. 275-293.
• Ergodic Versus Uncertain Financial Processes. Part II: Neoclassical and Institutional Economics.” Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. LXII. No. 4. pp. 478-501.
• ”The Arrow-Debreu Model of General Equilibrium and Kornai’s Critique in the Light of Neoclassical Economics”, Oxford -College Press, Journal of Banking, Finance & Sustainable Developments, 2019, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 42–68, Research Gate, Academia.edu
• “Nöther Theorem and the Lie Symmetries in the Goodwin-Model”, In: F. Szidarovszky and G. I. Bischi (eds.): Games and Dynamics in Economics, 143-154, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2020. Research Gate, Academia.edu

Awards and recognitions

• 1970 Certificate of Recognition from the Minister of Culture, Ministry of Education, Hungary
• 1976 Distinguished Professor, Ministry of Education, Hungary
• 1981 Monbusho Scholarship at ISER of Osaka University, Japan; National Scholarship Council, Hungary
• 1991 Visiting Research Professor, Osaka University, ISER
• 1991 Visiting Fellow East-West Center, Hawaii, USA
• 1992 G. Agnelli scholarship, Italy
• 1996 Fulbright Professorial Scholarship at USC, USA, Fulbright Committee, Hungary
• 1997 member of the New York Academy of Sciences, by invitation
• 1999, Széchenyi Professorial Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Hungary

Language skills

• Japanese
• English
• Russian
• Hungarian

Sources

• József Móczár – Hungarian Doctoral Council, Personal data sheet. doctori.hu. (Accessed: May 9, 2021)
• Jozsef Moczar | IDEAS/RePEc. ideas.repec.org. (Accessed: May 9, 2021)
• József Móczár, editorial member of the Public Finance Quarterly became a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. www.penzugyiszemle.hu. (Accessed: August 26, 2021)
• "Search Results - "József Móczár"", EconBiz (Access date: August 30, 2021)
• JSTOR: Search Results. www.jstor.org. (Accessed: August 31, 2021)
• József Móczár Research Gate
• József Móczár Academia.edu
• Közgazdász. Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetemen (MKKE) lapja. 1965. 13. sz. Népköztársasági ösztöndíjasok. Általános Kar. II. fokozat. Móczár József. II. évfolyam. (KÉP)
• Közgazdász. Marx Károly Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetemen (MKKE) lapja. 1967. 13. sz. Népköztársasági ösztöndíjasok. Általános Kar. II. fokozat. Móczár József. IV. évfolyam. (KÉP)
• Growth paths developed by international trade in Leontief-type dynamic models. DOI10.1016/S0922-1425(96)00233-2. ]</ref>https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:A1997XF11100005]</ref> Cited publication. Centralized vs. Decentralized Electric Grid Resilience Analysis Using Leontief's Input-Output Model. Aoun, A (Aoun, Alain) ; Adda, M (Adda, Mehdi) ; Ilinca, A (Ilinca, Adrian) ; Ghandour, M (Ghandour, Mazen) ; Ibrahim, H (Ibrahim, Hussein) DOI10.3390/en17061321
• Growth paths developed by international trade in Leontief-type dynamic models. DOI10.1016/S0922-1425(96)00233-2. Cited publication. Centralized vs. Decentralized Electric Grid Resilience Analysis Using Leontief's Input-Output Model. Aoun, A (Aoun, Alain) ; Adda, M (Adda, Mehdi) ; Ilinca, A (Ilinca, Adrian) ; Ghandour, M (Ghandour, Mazen) ; Ibrahim, H (Ibrahim, Hussein) DOI10.3390/en17061321
• Growth paths developed by international trade in Leontief-type dynamic models. DOI10.1016/S0922-1425(96)00233-2 Cited publication Centralized vs. Decentralized Electric Grid Resilience Analysis Using Leontief's Input-Output Model. Aoun, A (Aoun, Alain) ; Adda, M (Adda, Mehdi) ; Ilinca, A (Ilinca, Adrian) ; Ghandour, M (Ghandour, Mazen) ; Ibrahim, H (Ibrahim, Hussein) DOI10.3390/en17061321