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No. 52 | (Winter 2001)

Table of contents
  1. Mocsáry József : Privatisation revisited
  2. Bartha Eszter : From transitology to transformation
  3. Horváth Gizella : The myth of a “civic Hungary”
  4. Farkas Miklós : History lessons for boys (and girls)
  5. Marc Bloch : The Hungarian conquest
  6. Konok Péter : The Hungarian Soviet Republic and te restructuring of history
  7. Dietrich Orlow : Faces of fascism (interview)
  8. Tézli Péter : on Andras Tokaji: Music under stalinism and in the Third Reich
  9. James W. Loewen : Lies my teacher told me (excerpt)
  10. Juhász József : History lessons in the service of “nation building”
  11. Csoma Mózes : Falsifying history in Asia
  12. Szalai Pál : On the nature of the Horty regime
  13. Andor László : The New York drama and the Hungarian press
  14. Immanuel Wallerstein : The terrorist crisis week by week
  15. Borisz Kagarlickij : The US and Russia: the impact of terrorism
  16. Arundhati Roy : The algebra of Infinite Justice
  17. Humanista Internacionálé : For a world free of war and violence
  18. BAL : Statemant on the bombing of Afghanistan
  19. P. Podrabinek, Pjotr Markovics Abovin-Egidesz : Principles of socialism – Views of a Gulag inmate

On redistribution – The end of a myth in economics

One of the most widespread views in mainstream economic thought is that redistribution is a bad thing, because high taxes and duties undermine productivity and eficiency and therefore it needs to be minimised if we wanted to accelerate economic development. The truth element in this view is minimal, though we know that myths are usually not maintained by real experience but by the ideological hegemony of special interests.