Category Archives: Former issues

Hungary’s 1848 and the women

The 19th century has been seen as the period of the rise of the bourgeoise and the nation-state. Bourgeois revolutions played a crutial role in this process and also in the exclusion pof women from civil rights. In Hungary, resistance to this new dicrimination was even weaker than elsewhere.

The myth of fre trade: The role of GATT and the WTO in the world economy

The liberalization of international trade does not'lead to either the increase of general welfare or a convergence of national economies. On the contrary, there are many ways how liberalization improves the positions of the well-off nation states and accelerates the relative or absolute impoverishment of the poor. In the recent decades, this process took place with the help of GATT and WTO.