László Czabán obituary

My friend and former colleague Laszlo Czaban, who has died suddenly aged 62, was a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS). An intellectual of the first rank and a dedicated scholar and teacher, he arrived from Hungary in 1993 to take a post at Manchester.

I and a colleague, Richard Whitley, recruited him to work with us - at the then Manchester Business School - on a research project on economic transformation in post-socialist Hungary. Working with him was an extraordinary intellectual and social experience. Among other things, it rapidly became clear that he was no mere" economist: rather, his knowledge ranged across the social sciences and embraced philosophy and the humanities more generally.