The author investigates the relationship between the so-called New Economy and the trade deficit of the US. The conclusion is that any economic analysis must take into account that the US is the home of the computer and teh information revolution, and the only remaining super power in the 1990s.

Table of contents

1. Andor László : In memoriam Ferenc Tokei
2. Szalai Pál : Alexander Dubcek
3. Albert Einstein : Why socialism?
4. Borbély Tibor Bors : City with gardens or more perfect version of 1984
5. Horváth Gizella : On Francois Furet: The passing of an illusion
6. Noam Chomsky : On Stephane Courtois: The balck book of communism
7. Thad Williamson : Walter LaFeber: Michael Jordan and the New Capitalism
8. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj : The myth of clean sports
9. Zanny Begg : The real history of the Olympics
10. Csötönyi Sándor : Such is boxing (interview by Tamas Krausz)
11. Mandel Miklós : Football from below
12. Krausz Tamás : The globalisation of Hungarian football
13. John Bellamy Foster : Monopoly capital at theturn of the century
14. Székely-Doby András : The price of lasting growth
15. Howard Waitzkin, Celia Iriart : How the US exports managed care?
16. Christopher Phelps : Money and the US presidental race
17. Kolumbiai gerillák : Get the streets against imperialist intervention!
18. Márkus Imre : Raiway strike 2000 (interview)

A background story and analysis about the promotion of health care privatisation in third world countries by US corporations and the multilateral financial institutions.

The most important feature of contemporary American politics is not practice or character. Those running for pubic offices in the US must spend most of their time by collecting money for their campaigns.