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In 1986 Bernard Pivot, a French journalist and literary critic, conducted an interview with Miłosz in the television feature called Apostrophes. The conversation was an archetypal example of an encounter between a representative of the “literary centre” and an envoy from what Pascale Casanova later called “une petite littérature”. The present article discusses Miłosz’s contradictory relations with France as a centre of “world’s republic of letters”, against the background of his difficult dialogue with Pivot, and the wider context of Casanova’s theory of inequalities in the literary world. On the one hand, Miłosz felt wiser than French litterateurs, and frequently pointed out to their political naiveness and ignorance of history and the cruel reality of the world. On the other hand, however, Miłosz’s sense of superiority over Western culture was always dialectically linked to the other side of the coin: the rage of a provincial poet at the headquarters of the cultural and economical power.
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W artykule przedstawiono dynamikę negocjacji zadłużeniowych w strefie euro jako strategiczną grę między krajami centrum i krajami peryferyjnymi. W każdej grze strategicznej, negocjatorzy wyceniają, w sposób mniej lub bardziej formalny, wartość funkcji preferencji każdej ze stron. Pierwsze decyzje ratowania gospodarki Grecji podejmowano w sytuacji niepełnej informacji zarówno o wartości wypłat (mierzonych np. szacowaną wielkością zmian PKB), jak i o przedmiocie umowy związanej z realizacją wybranej strategii - refinansowania długów sektora publicznego Grecji. Rozpoczętą grę sekwencyjną, z niedoskonałą informacją, prezentowano na rynku jako skończone negocjacje. Tymczasem w negocjacjach pojawiały się nowe strategie (np. wyjścia ze strefy euro) i coraz większego znaczenia nabierała gra prowadzona między strefą euro a rynkiem kapitałowym. Istotnym problemem w rozpatrywanych negocjacjach zadłużeniowych jest ich koalicyjna postać. W strefie euro koalicje tworzą zarówno kraje centrum, jak i kraje peryferyjne. Ich stabilność zależy od podziału korzyści z przyjmowanego rozwiązania i ma istotne znaczenie dla sposobu rozwiązywania problemu zadłużenia w UGW i losów całej Unii Europejskiej. Autor zauważa, że wyniki interakcji uzyskiwane w negocjacjach z Grecją, Irlandią i Portugalią wpłynęły na kolejne strategie, a także na późniejsze postępowanie wobec problemów Hiszpanii i Włoch. Decyzje w sprawie powołanie Europejskiego Mechanizmu Stabilności, aktywnego włączenia Europejskiego Banku Centralnego w zarządzanie długiem na rynku kapitałowym, powołanie unii bankowej itp. są istotnym „uzupełnieniem" podjętych wcześniej decyzji restrukturyzacji długu Grecji, Portugalii i Irlandii.
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The paper looks at the dynamics of debt negotiations within the euro area as a strategic game between the central and peripheral countries. In each strategic game, players assess, in a more or less formal way, the pay-offs of each party. When the first decisions to rescue Greece were taken, the strategies were created in the game of incomplete information on both the value of pay-offs (for example the estimated size of the measured changes in GDP) and the subject of the contract related to the implementation of the selected strategies - refinancing of the public debt of Greece. The players began a sequential game with imperfect information, presented to the market as finished negotiations. Meanwhile, new strategies emerged (e.g. exit from the euro area) and the game between the euro area and the capital market became also more important. In the ongoing negotiations, the cooperative nature of the game gained an increasingly important role. The stability of the coalition depends on the distribution of the benefits of the adopted solutions and is essential for the process of solving the debt problem in the EMU and the fate of the European Union. It should also be noted that the results achieved in the negotiations with Greece, Ireland and Portugal contributed to the creation of new strategies. Decisions on establishment of the ESM, the ECB's active involvement in the management of debt in the capital market, the creation of a banking union, etc., constitute an important "complement" to the decisions taken earlier - to bailout strategies of Greece, Portugal and Ireland.
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The objective of the paper is to analyse why some firms innovate while others do not. The paper combines different theories of innovation by relating innovation to internal, firm specific assets and external, regional factors. Hypotheses are derived from theories and tested empirically by using logistic regression. The empirical analysis indicates that internal funding of R&D and size of the firm are the most important firm specific attributes for successful innovation. External, regional factors are also important. The analysis shows that firms located in large urban regions have significantly higher innovation rates than firms located in the periphery, and firms involved in regional networking are more likely to innovate compared to firms not involved in networking. The analysis contributes to a theoretical and empirical understanding of factors that influence on innovation and the role innovation plays in the market economy. Innovation policy should be targeted at developing a tax system and building infrastructure which give firms incentives to invest and allocate internal resources to R&D-activities and collaborate with others in innovation. From an economic policy perspective, consideration should be given to allocating more public resources to rural areas in order to compensate for the asymmetric distribution of resources between the centre and periphery. The paper contributes to the scientific literature of innovation by combining the firm oriented perspective with weight on firm specific, internal resources and a system perspective which focuses on external resources and networking as the most important determinants of innovation in firms.
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