In November 2002, NATO issued the second initiative for Eastward enlargement. The activist network ReciNeNATO issued its protest.
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No. 52 | (Winter 2001)
Table of contents
- Mocsáry József : Privatisation revisited
- Bartha Eszter : From transitology to transformation
- Horváth Gizella : The myth of a “civic Hungary”
- Farkas Miklós : History lessons for boys (and girls)
- Marc Bloch : The Hungarian conquest
- Konok Péter : The Hungarian Soviet Republic and te restructuring of history
- Dietrich Orlow : Faces of fascism (interview)
- Tézli Péter : on Andras Tokaji: Music under stalinism and in the Third Reich
- James W. Loewen : Lies my teacher told me (excerpt)
- Juhász József : History lessons in the service of “nation building”
- Csoma Mózes : Falsifying history in Asia
- Szalai Pál : On the nature of the Horty regime
- Andor László : The New York drama and the Hungarian press
- Immanuel Wallerstein : The terrorist crisis week by week
- Borisz Kagarlickij : The US and Russia: the impact of terrorism
- Arundhati Roy : The algebra of Infinite Justice
- Humanista Internacionálé : For a world free of war and violence
- BAL : Statemant on the bombing of Afghanistan
- 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.
The Hungarian tax system
Housing subsidization in the post-communist Hungary
Housing policy and related subsidies are in the focus of our contemporary political debates. Since 1999, the government has brought new measures of support. The article provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of these new directions with an eye on the social dimension of housing policy.