The article discusses the role of policy in society in general and states that policy is present in the general public with a much greater weight than its actual role would hint despite the fact that the changes of society are more decisive than the changes in policy. The authors give a short analysis of the role of policy in history and try to determine what role policy would play in the shaping intellectual method of production.

It is a survey of the changes in expenditure by households in the past two years on the basis of statistical data. She makes a specific analysis of the changes and the transformation of demands on the basis of social-sociological groups and of the items of the family budget. She draws attention to the economic policy dangers which selects between the bad alternative of leaving the poorest people alone or dissolving the middle classes.

The author joins those approaches which do not regard the system left behind as socialism from the point of view of formation theory but determine it as state capitalism. He depicts the analogies of this „state capitalism" in various third world economies and analyses the operation of these systems as their inner structural-power relations. He arrives at the conclusion that the present changes leave the state capitalist structures untouched and this way, it is impossible to break out from the mistaken circles of the „third world". The author sees the solution in a mixed economy kept in balance with antimonopoly measures which is characterised by private property of small enterprises as well as workers' ownership of large companies.