Michael Ignatieff: Birodalom light; György Matolcsy: American empire – The scripts of the future; Stephen Howe: Empires; George Soros: The bubble of American supremacy: Correcting the misuse of American power
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The alternatives of the reform politics – to the margin of a privately published book
Zoltán Novák: The Budapest Reform Circle of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party – the role of the reform circle movement in the change of regime in Hungary
The hour of justice. Thoughts on the village and agriculture
The problems and the real economic and social structure of the village, and the reasons and trends of its today almost catastrophic situation are mostly unknown to the leftist readers and political movements. Without conscious structural changes the anachronistic agriculture and the fragmented farm structure formed on the ruins of the co-operative system that was destroyed after the change of regime, continue to be the certain sources of poverty and backwardness.
The essay examines the impact of globalization
Neoliberalism and the European social democracyon the national economic policies in West-Europe and North-America, where these models replaced Keynesiasm and the theoretical basis of socialist-social democratic parties and the North-American progressive parties. The collapse of communism in Central-East-Europe significantly impacted on the social democratic ideology and practice; it accelerated the disintegration of the so called "German model". The end of the social democratic Keynesiasm and the maintenance of the welfare systems that are becoming more and more marked-based, empty the welfare regulations and the regulation of the labour market.
The economic mythology of neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is today seen as the only theory that is able to describe and at the same time control the process of modern globalization. Neoliberalism is, however, inadequate even theoretically as it does not recognize the immanent controversies of the "almighty" market logic let alone other important economic and social aspects that are crucial for the human life.