The article has been inspired by the Document: Council of the European Union, 10117/ 06, <i>Renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy</i> (Brussels, 9 June 2006). The problems discussed are following: Historical process of the economic and social integration; Prerequisites of the European integration...

The starting point is a characteristic of the effective factors of globalization trends and a characteristic of the form of these trends around which the worldwide movement contesting this form is developing. The author refers to the contemporary current of economic thought to the New Political...

The author expresses his conviction that particularly in the XX century science, technology and innovations have proved their endogenic character before the whole historical social process. The explosion of science, technology and innovations in the XX century is so great that in the text it was...

Poland's Accession to the European Union: Adaptation and Absorption Adaptive processes signify, above all, a mutual structural adaptiation of interrelated units ana organisms, while absorptive processes signify the transmission of characteristics and properties of socioeconomic processes from...

Neither twilight nor renaissance: the author argues, that the failure of the central-directive command planning of the Soviet type cannot overshadow thebenefits or sometimes even necessity of development planning. Survival and/or continuity of planning experience, while getting rid of...

In most developed economies, especially in the European Union, public expenditure has long accounted for about 50 percent of gross domestic product. Consequently, public and private goods have roughly been divided at a 50:50 ratio.<br> Even though public expenditure covers more factors than just...

There is no denying that countries seeking accession to the European Union strive to model themselves after EU economies in the level and structure of GDP. Obviously, as the gap narrows, benefits from economic, technological, scientific and cultural cooperation grow. Imitation is consequently...