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Transformation in Poland and Liberal Orientations

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Kowalik T.

Ekonomista

2007

issue 5

781-797

The successes of economic transformation in Poland were accompanied by a series of negative phenomena which emerged with greater intensity than in any other country in Central Europe and in the European Union. In terms of comparative economics, the most important features of the present socio-economic order in Poland are the following: 1) massive and permanent unemployment; 2) slightly more than half of working age population is employed; 3) widespread and growing poverty; 4) high number of homeless people and undernourished or even hungry children; 5) large and growing disparities of wages and incomes bringing a danger of oligarchic democracy; 6) very poor working conditions in the private sector; 7) annihilation of trade unions; 8) the crisis in the welfare state is more acute then in the other Central European states; 9) the privatization practices contradict distributive justice requirements. This socio-economic order is by and large a result of conservative, neo-liberal policy, which in Poland is wrongly treated as identical with liberalism as such. This paper brings an attempt to vindicate other currents of liberalism, particularly those open towards full employment, social security, democratic ownership, equality and distributive justice.

Forum: Questions about social order

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Aniol W., Nieciunski W., Baszkiewicz J., Dziewiecka-Bokun L., Ejsmond Z., Frieske K. W., Gilejko L., Horodenski R., Kabaj M., Kowalik T., Kozlowski, P., Markiewicz W., Modzelewski W., Morawski W., Morecka Z., Rakowski M., Sadowski A., Sadowski Z., Stasiak A., Tabin M., Wilkin J.

Problemy Polityki Społecznej. Studia i Dyskusje

2004

issue 6

13-124

The special feature of this issue is debate concerning explanations of the new social order in Poland and remedies to its internal problems after 1989. Professor W. Nieciunski wrote an essay based on five important and basic questions about social order and modernization of Poland. What were the sources of 1989 revolution and decay of the state socialism in the Soviet Union? What changes occurred during restitution of capitalism (systemic transformation) and what consequences did they have? What antagonisms and conflicts shape Poland's external environment? What kind of goals and activities for modernization should we promote to remove Poland's civilizational delay? What systemic arrangements can ensure conciliatory resolution of unavoidable internal conflicts as well as creation of conditions favorable to general progress of Polish society and realization of goals necessary for modernization? Twenty prominent figures from Polish academic community agreed to answer and to discuss points made by professor W. Nieciunski.

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1 Baszkiewicz J.

1 Dziewiecka-Bokun L.

1 Ejsmond Z.

1 Frieske K. W.

1 Gilejko L.

1 Horodenski R.

1 Kabaj M.

1 Kozlowski

1 Markiewicz W.

1 Modzelewski W.

1 Morawski W.

1 Morecka Z.

1 Nieciunski W.

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1 Rakowski M.

1 Sadowski A.

1 Sadowski Z.

1 Stasiak A.

1 Tabin M.

1 Wilkin J.

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