A newnon-governmental organisation, with assistance from Development GAP Washington, D.C., has published some documents formerly kept secret by the Hungarian Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of hungary. These documents throw a new light on the origins of transition policies in Hungary.

A new initiative to introduce ecological taxes adopdet by a European conference held in Athens in 1997 November. The document explains the arguments too.

The Sytem of National Accountas used by the UN to mesure the annual income of countries hardly takes into account any environmental factors and particularly the degradation of human and environmental capital the reuslt of the operation of capitalist markets.

Intellectuals view themselves as the vanguard of modernisation, while their actual behaviour bears a number of feudalistic marks. Since an essential ingredient of the existence of intelligentsia is to develop the society in an intellectual sense, this layer cannot reach any form of "class power" under conditions of capitalism.

On French author Viviane Forrester's book L'horreur Economique ( The Economic Horror) and on Erzsebet Szalai': Az elitek metamorfózisa. In: Az elitek átváltozása. (Metamorphose of elites in Transition of elites) Új mandátum, Budapest, 1998.