Table of contents

1. Arthur Miller : The end of illusions (interview)
2. Németh György : Lajos Bokros and the reform of the pension system
3. Orosz Éva : Is a shift of paradigm in health care possible?
4. Paul Wetherly : Anthony Giddens and the third way
5. Harasztosi Péter : The third way and the labour market
6. Tom Frank : Marketing and liberation
7. Robert Went : Globalisation and the long-wave (interview)
8. Andor László : American century
9. Andor László : Gulf war
10. Peter Gowan : 9/11 and global politics
11. Matthew Rotschild : New McCarthysm
12. Claude Julien : Attack on shrines
13. Alain Gresh : Letter to my doughter
14. Richard Dowden : Return to inferno
15. Katona Magda : The main causes of terrorosm and the possibilities to abolish them
16. Szigeti Péter : on Loic Waquant: Prisons of misery
17. (K. T.) : On Jozsef Szigeti: Intellectual autobiography (1921-1948)
18. Jörg Huffschmid : European economists for an alternative economic policy (extract)
19. Georges Németh : letter from Switzerland

America faces new danger in the new century. The distinguished writer believes that reckless US policies increase the risks in the American way of life with no good reason.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it appeared for many that the so-called calculation debate has been decided for the benefit of the market. However, the imbalances of the world markets in the recent years reopen the question whether another type of economic coordination would be more rational. The authors believe that the spreading of moder computer science opens new ways before economic planning.

The 1990s has been spent with giving up the identity and autonomy of the intellectuals. The intellectuals have betrayed themselves by taking over the way of thought of vendors and prostitutes. Their critical attitudes have been given up and they melted with the petit-bourgeois layers and became a conformist hurd.