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A scholar’s theory is part of his biography. It may be different perhaps in physics, but few economists would disagree entirely with this opinion. In any case, it is hard not to recognise the connections between the eventful life of Ota Sik and his theories.1 Demonstration of this is facilitated by the fact that his biography falls into two easily distinguishable parts: the ‘Eastern’ and the ‘Western’.
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O. Sik has recently published his autobiography Prager Frühlingserwachen — Erinnerungen (Prague Spring Awakening: Memories) (Herford: Busse Seewald, 1988).
O. Sik, Oekonomie — Interessen — Politik (Economics — Interests — Politics, edited by Otto Reinhold (Berlin: Dietz, 1966), p. 306.
O. Sik, Wachstum und Krisen (Growth and Crisis), (Berlin: Springer, 1988), p. 6.
O. Sik, ‘Zwei Wirtschaftskrisen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’ (Two Economic Crises in the Federal Republic of Germany), Jahresbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1983, vol. 198/5, pp. 185–408.
O. Sik, The Communist Power System (New York: Praeger, 1981).
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Dopfer, K. (1990). Introduction: Sik’s Third Way of Economic Evolution. In: Dopfer, K., Raible, KF. (eds) The Evolution of Economic Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11153-4_1
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