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In the entire period following the Second World War, and especially in the seventies there took place a marked progress in development of industrial democracy in the FRG. This refers mainly to representative forms of this democracy. Workers participation is carried out through factory committees composed of representatives of the whole body of workers, and representatives of employees in supervisory councils and on company boards. With the exception of the metallurgical and coalmining industries where the position of employees and shareholders' representatives is more or loss equalized, in the remaining industries employers occupy by far the most predominant position. Trade unions are situated outside the company but their influence inside the company and, first of all, indirect influence is quite considerable. One of drawbacks in the participation system in the FRG is absence of possibilities for participation of individual employees in making decisions, which causes their dissatisfaction with the existing system.
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Despite successive failures in its application the incomes policy as a tool in the fight with inflation is an object of animated discussion in the USA both among economic theoreticians and in wide social circles. A comparative analysis performed in the article on two different attitudes to the question of J. K. Calbralth and Milton Friedman allows to state that apart from theoretical differences In the discussion on adaptability of the incomes policy of great significance are ideological differences consisting in different approaches to the most important problems of the contemporary capitalism, its prospects and directions of structural transformations. The article consists of three parts. The first part contains a basic set of information including a definition of the incomes policy and discussion of the most typical ways in which its application is theoretically justified. The second part encompasses presentation of the postwar episodes in application of the incomes pollcy; government "guidelines" from the period 1962-1968, Nixon's New Economic Policy as well as "principles" of procedure in the sphere of wages and prices announced by Jimmy Carter in 1978 and being in force till 1980. Finally, in the third part Calbralth's and Friedman's views are confronted which is followed by summing-up of analysis and formulation of conclusion, and here especially conclusions concerning the character of causes accounting for different views on the analyzed problem.
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The article deals with analysis of Smith's and Ricardo's opinions on the problem of utilization of labour resources in the capitalist economy against the background of characterization of the epoch and literature of the subject. In the centre of the analysis is the concept of full utilization of labour resources put forward by Smith and accepted by Ricardo. The author advances a thesis that in as much as the concept expressed conditions prevailing in Smith's epoch it, however, failed to correspond to Ricardo's times. That is why Ricardo put forward a thesis of creation of "population surplus" corresponding to conditiona prevailing in his tires, which in the author's opinion is an expression of originality in Ricardo's thoughts although the fact that Ricardo does not reject Smith's concept being so much different in its sense proves his great inconsistence.
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One of the most characteristic features of present-day structural changes is development of the service sector. For obvious reasons these problems receive a growing interest of the political economy. The author focusses his attention on some methodological problems connected with analysis of services and resulting from a different treatment of services by the Marxist and bouregois economic sciences. He is critical about some theses of the trisectorlal economy division concept pointing at the necessity of intrasectorial analysis and at asome difficulties connected with analysis of the internal structure of the service sector. The article contains also a list of problems, which in the author's opinion should be studied.
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The author presents in the article main problems connected with measuring the effects of import of modern technique making allowances for specific characteristics of developing economics. There are discussed basic methods of the economic calculus as applied in analysis of effectiveness on the transferred technical progress on macro- and microeconomlc scale. Some attention has been also devoted to social aspects generated by import of new technologies through presentation of basic assumptions of the technology assessment concept. Despite quite a vast range of socio-economic methods in measuring the technical progress effectiveness, application of particular measures should be analyzed separately for each Third World country since particular elements of the effectiveness calculus differ from one economy to another.
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All highly industrialized capitalist countries have at present more or less, but in most cases quite well, developed state systems of social security. In majority of these countries they absorb over 30 per cent of the national income. While accomplishing its main tasks of the social-welfare type they exert, nonetheless, a definite influence on the economic management process. The article contains a review of different views confirming a positive impact of the state social security systems on the capitalist economy, and their economic usefulness. The author is also making an attempt at their evaluation on the basis on an earlier performed and deeper analysis of the economic aspects of functioning of the West German social security system. The final conclusion is that the presented views may be treated as right in most cases as majority of activities within the scope of the state social security systems in capitalism exerts a positive impact on the economic growth process and contribute to weakening of cyclic instability in the capitalist economy.
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The direction of reconstruction of Indian agriculture proposed in this article is based on analysis of the level of manpower resources and its efficiency in India's agriculture, contained in my previously quoted article. The first part contains short charakteristics of the course of agrarian reforms in India and opinions concerning the co-operative way of development of rural areas. This review provides a basis for a conculsion that along with passage of time there was taking place an evolution towards resignation from effective intervention in social relations in rural areas while the proposed and promoted way of development through introduction of co-operative solutions remained in the sphere of theoretical considerations. In the second part there is contained a proposition of reconstruction of the Indian village through provision of opportunities of full employment within the sector as the mast effective solution both from the point of view of utilization of manpower resources and maximization of agricultural production. It should be mentioned here that the proposition of establishment of „optimal" farms does not constitute an alternative for the co-operative movement but it provides only a chance of explicit presentation of the problem.
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The article contains an analysis of main directions of policy pursued by the EEC authorities in relation to processes of concentration and centralization of capital taking place within the area of the EEC. The analysis leads to a conclusion that the goal of this policy is removal of all barriers hampering the phenomenon of international capital ties paving the way for creation of the so-called European capital. Commission Of the EEC treats it as an important element consolidating its position as a nucleus of authorities of the European state to be formed — in its conviction-in the future. However till now the propositions of the Commission aiming at more radical selection of means to promote regrouping of companies on the Common Market scale, were not fully supported by member states, which treat with reserve the process of progressive internationalization of ownership structures. Meanwhile a need for profound changes in the structure of the EEC industry becomes more and more urgent especially in the fields which dynamize the economic growth. The future of common industrial policy depends thus, to a large extent, on system of forces existing between national authorities and supranational institutions.
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Presence of organizations called interest groups in the European Economic Community was becoming more and more pronounced along with progress in integration processes. The author's attention is focussed on one of categories of groups and namely on interest groups of socio-economic character set lip to pursue interests of economic subjects associated in organizational structures (e. g. agricultural producers, industrial producers, hired labour). Even a superficial analysis of the phenomenon confirms great potential importance of these groups for the integration process. Creation of the EEC and transfer of competences in the field of economic policy in favour of different institutions of the Common Market led to gigantic growth of interest revealed by national economic interests groups wishing now to transfer their operations to the level of the EEC. This interest and a need for co-ordinatioh of activities of national groups paved the way for rapid creation of the groups at the EEC level. Analysis of genesis and process of creation of international economic interest groups points at strong relationship between the integration process and creation of international structures replacing earlier national economic interest groups. Stucture and internal organization of groups at the Common Market level is a function of tasks which are to be performed by these organisms on behalf of subjects grouped within them in relation to institutional superstructure of the European Economic Community.
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Passing of „Stabilization law" on June 8th 1967 was a reflection of growing interventionist trends in the economic policy of the FRG. Being an official programme of anticyclical regulation of the economy this law provided a basis for a new concept of economic policy, the concept of „comprehensive steering", which was to replace the concept of „socialmarket economy" devaluated by the economic crisis of 1966/1967. The article presents a background of the new economic policy, the most important features of the „stabilization law", and an attempt at assessment of feasibility of its application in conditions of the FRG’s economy.
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The article deals with analysis of socio-economic contraditions characteristic for capitalist economy. The authors focus their attention on only one protolem being perhaps the most painful and paradoxical expression of these contradictions, namely on the problem of poverty. This problem is analyzed against the example of the US ecqnomy. The article contains first of all: a brief history of recognizing poverty as a social problem and of attempts made by the state to curb this phenomenon, problem of definition of the state of poverty, scope of the discussed phendmenon and dynamics of its changes over last few years as well as structure of poverty in different cross-sections. Analysis of sources of poverty, constituting the next and last part of the article, proceeds in direction of polemics with bourgeois thesis about "poverty of one’s own choice".
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The article constitutes an attempt at justification of the need of systems approach to the whole economic activity along with its natural context. The point is to find an approach encompassing different aspects of economic life in a manner allowing to create a comprehensive theory of these phenomena. The need of such approach to economic phenomena has its origins both in processes occuring in economic reality and its natural context, and development processes of the science itself. The research approach gained special significance in the contemporary science, and together with it — justification of initial research stages. Increased importance of these problems ensues from far-reaching effects of cognitive fertility of the accepted research concept. The systems approach consisting in a comprehensive approach to the analyzed objects appears to be especially effective today. This approach is a source of many scientific achievements and is deeply rooted in Marx's method. Simultaneously the economic reality on the world scale begins to function as a strongly internally linked system. Apart from that there are problems of ties between economy and man's natural environment with these feedbacks becoming more and more obvious in the recent years. Thus there exists a convergence in development of reality, being an object of interest of theory of economy, and form of research methods. This convergence calls for detailed analysis in the light of growing practical problems and special effectiveness of systems approaches.
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The article deals with problems of economic growth of Austria in the period of 1945—1953. Analysis of the economic growth process is conducted in a way that would allow to show the special economic role which was played by American economic, aid implemented within the framework of the Marshall's plan for reconstruction of Austrian economy. The author stresses supremacy of political goals, which W. Truman's administration attached to the plan and he points that the basic economic mechanism of infulence exerted by this aid resulted from the fact that with limited possibilities of internal accumulation it represenied an important source of obtaining economic surplus. Earmarking of economic surplus for investment targets became an essentian factor of economic accelerattion achieved over the period of 1948—1951. Summing up, It should be stressed that foreign aid within the Marshall's plan and implementation of the four-year period of reconstruction of Austria's economy possible owing to this aid, combined with a successful stabilization policy of 1952—1953, provided foundations for „Austrian economic miracle" of the fifties.
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The article tackles a problem concerning a polemic between Keynes and Pigou with regard to the employment issue, which is quite important for understanding of transformations in the contemporary bourgeois economy.
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Monetaryzm. Negacja Keynesismu?

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The article presents basic theses at monetarism both in the sphere of economic theory end policy. As the author is interested, first of all, in outlining differences in relation to the contemporary Keyneaiam the article does not discuss in an exhaustive, manner the internally hierarchized structure of monetaristic views with the main attention being focused on problems accounting for a distinct character of the presented trend.
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The article is an attempt at providing an answer to two questions. Firstly - to what extent J. K. Galbraith’s theoretical contributions are an expression of transformations occurring in the American economy and, secondly - to what extent it reflects a wider phenomenon i.e. crisis of the contemporary bourgeois economic thought.
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Wstęp do Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica nr 49
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The article consists of two parts. The first part presents, the role of three sectors hypothesis in the theory of structural transformations and in structural studies is the FRG drawing special attention to those theses of the concept around which an animated discussion is held by West-German economists. In the second part, the author describes the gain directions and scope of sectorial structural transformations in Vest German economy over the period 1960-1930.
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The main idea of this report is the finding of some ideological convergence between the thought of the post-war Social Democratic parties in the West (discussed here on the example of the social Democratic parties of Austria and Germany) and the social Catnolicism. It is often pointed out that majority of representaives of the Social Domocratic Party have no doubt that properly developing socialism cannot develop without religion (there is often mentioned not only the Catholic religion but - more generally Christian religion).
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The article is divided into three parts. It first part discusses views of Social Democrats on evolution of property relations in capitalist countries, the second part - Social Democratic ideas of property relations , and the third part - Social Democratic critique of property relations in countries of realsocialism. The author tries to grasp not only what Social Democrats say about the every essence of property relations but also how they perceive relationships between these relations and other areas of economic phenomena.
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