On the shape of the world production frontier**This is a part of my Ph.D. dissertation presented to the University of New South Wales. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Professor M. C. Kemp for his kind instruction and suggestions.

1982 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
MAKOTO TAWADA
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
World Production ◽  
Production Frontier ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Success, Needs and Decency: For Marysia Márkus

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
John Grumley
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In the following paper I will analyse three key themes characteristic of the life and work of Marisha Márkus. This paper was originally read for a conference on her work at the time of her farewell from the University of New South Wales in 2002. Success, Needs and Decency are signature themes that percolate through her work. Under the theme of success I turn to central ideas in her early sociology of women and to the meaning of success in the world of the life of women. This theme has a particular existential theme for Marisha, who nursed her eldest son Gyuri for the last 30 years of her life. The concept of radical needs was a central concept of the work of the Budapest School. Marisha’s relatively less well-known interpretation of needs is arguably the most fully democratic reading of this theme that came to be better known in the work of Agnes Heller. I finally turn to the concept of decency, which for Márkus adds value to the key ideal of civil society that became so important in the transition of so-called socialist societies during the collapse of the communist regimes in the Eastern bloc.

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