Oral history interview with Mihaly Simai, 2000.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Mihaly Simai, 2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769110851

Early years: 1952 graduate of Budapest University of Economics with international studies degree; member of populist student group, People's College; Career: Department of International Politics and Economics assistant professor; 1959-1960 employee of ECE; 1964-1968 Centre for Development Planning, Projection, and Policies; 1993-1995 Director of the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics Research; member of UN Committee on Public Administration, UNICEF Executive Board, Committee on Development Planning, and member of Advisory Board of the UN Staff College; professor at the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Budapest University of Economics; president of the Hungarian UN Association and the Hungarian National Committee of UNICEF; honorary president of the World Federation of UN Associations; author of and The Future of Global Governance and View from the 38th Floor, a sociography of UN; Themes: UN documents contraband reading in university; relationship with Prime Minister Imre Nagy; Yugoslavia report in 1956; Keynesian economics and western economic science; decolonization and economic independence; involvement in development economics and foreign trade; industrialization; UNITAR project on brain-drain; New International Economic Order (NIEO) and development decades; Soviet sphere of influence on the UN; innovation of NGO's; Soviet human rights performance; UN global conferences; relationship between academia and the UN; North-South divide in population, finance, technology, and environment; comparative analysis of Secretaries-Generals; Brentton Woods institutions and the UN system; involvement and leadership in UN University and UNU-WIDER (World-Institute for Development Economics Research); research fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP); Japan and UNU; collapse of Soviet economy; UN in transition and its post-Cold war vision and purpose.

transcript: 106 p.

Nolan, Norton & Company, Incorporated

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8180340

Nolan, Norton & Company, Incorporated

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

United States institute of peace

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64794dx (corporateBody)

The United States Institute of Peace; an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts; established in 1984, the Institute meets its congressional mandate through an array of programs, including research grants, fellowships, professional training, education programs from high school through graduate school, conferences and workshops, library services, and publications; Board of Directors ...

Nagy, Imre, 1896-1958

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m04ws0 (person)

World Institute for Development Economics Research.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s808sb (corporateBody)

United Nations. Secretary-General

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69p7702 (corporateBody)

United Nations University.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68h3d3x (corporateBody)

Weiss, Thomas George

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66w9kbk (person)

United Nations

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t76681 (corporateBody)

In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...

Simai, Mihaly

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c2nt9 (person)

Director of the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics Research. From the description of Oral history interview with Mihaly Simai, 2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 769110851 ...