One of the current tasks of the Hungárián government is to teach the people how to love NATO. The article gives an overview of the often astonishing instruments of this PR-strategy.
Category Archives: Periodical
On the history of workers councils in Hungary
A book written by Erzsébet Szalai is a first attempt to present a comprehensive volume about the transformation of employee representation in Hungary, starting with the movement of workers' councils. The reviewer was part of the movement that launched the workers' councils, and comments the volume from the point of view of the eyewitness and the historian.
The myth of European Union
A recent book by progressive economists provides a devastating critique of the idea of single market and monetary union in Europe. The authors, however, can also be criticised from an ecological point of view, for making too much concessions to grand infrastructural projects destroying the environment and local jobs. (A. Amin and J. Tomaney (eds): Behind the Myth of the European Union: Prospects for Cohesion. Routledge, London 1995)
Is science harmful? – on Schumacher’s books: Small is beautiful and Good work
Two books of Ernst F. Schumacher have been published in Hungarian (Small is Beautiful and Good Work) They provide a foundation to waht is called alternative economics and present a new approach to humanity, rationality and economy.
How economic thought became unlinear?
Manufacturing a neoliberal "consensus" in social sciences has been a matter of a few decades. Origins date back to early post-war years and financial roots lead up to the foundations of big US corporations.