A new British-American journal on the new political economy of the world-system. The introduction is based upon the outline of the aims of the journal by Richard Appelbaum and Jerrfey Henderson.
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Trade unions and system change in Poland and Hungary
The two countries have been in similar economic situation, although they followed different patterns in the destruction of the state socialist regime. Their experience suggests, for example, that the legality and legitimacy of the transition process show a trade off relation. The paper was delivered for the 5th World Congress of ICCEES in Warshaw.
No. 24 | (Winter 1994)
This issue of Eszmélet mostly contains articles of economic theory and economic policy. The starting question is: is there any theory that can properly catch the essence of domestic and international transitions? Is bourgeois economic theory able to show solutions both in the East and West? An article on British football presents a model of economic developments in a specific area of life where market obviously should not enter or maybe only with restrictions. In futures issues, we will address questions of culture, natural environment and information economics from a similar angle.
Table of contents
- Szigeti Péter, Andor László, Mocsáry József, Lóránt Károly, Krausz Tamás : Can a socialist market economy exist?
- Vigvári András : Some features of the privatisation in Hungary
- Hugo Radice : The role of foreign capital in the transformation of Eastern Europe
- Capital and Class
- Paul Williamson, Dan Corry : A game without vision – Football crisis in Britain
- Karl-Heinz Roth : The return of the proletariat and the weakness of the left
- Trautmann László : The Hellenisation of economics
- Hoch Róbert : On the history of economic reform – Comments to Kornai’s article
- Krausz Tamás : Political economy against history
- call to the G7 on debt-relief
- Michael Knüfer : The GATT and the developing countries
- Aurelio Martinez, Etienne Largend : Indian revolt, new guerilla movement or revolution?
- Jean Martin : The second year of the French revolution
In opposition in the 80s
A memoir about the activities of the so-called Democratic Opposition, which begun as a movement for political as well as economic democracy, but finished as a local agent of external powers. A former participant of the DO, a predecessor of the present Alliance of Free Democrats, tells why he left that movement at the end of the 1980s.
Beyond burgeois democracy
Péter Hack, Lászlo Perecz, Péter Szigeti, and Susan Zimmermann discuss the possibilities to supersede bourgeois democracy, as well as those factors encouraging scientists and activists to seek alternative political mechanisms. They explain why bourgeois democracy emerged in Western Europe and in our region, and whether it is in crisis or not.