Ten years have passed since the publication of my book The Road to a Free Economy: Shifting from a Socialist System-the Example of Hungary. It was the first book to offer comprehensive proposals for the postsocialist transition. This article assesses the book as I see it 10 years later.

The topic of paper covers not only Hungary and the others post-socialist countries but even the countries of Western Europe. The discussion is about the Hungarian reform which is a vivid example of support of an general relationship between citizen and state. The introduction is dealing with a...

The way of Hungarian economy, from a centralised economy to market economy, embodies some different aspects in comparison with other post-communistic countries. The goal of the text is to contribute to explanations of these aspects, their interactions and effects induced. The analysis starts...

The article finishes the text published in Politická ekonomie 1997, č. 2., which is dealing with the Hungarian way from centralised economy to market economy and shows macroeconomic development in the Hungary between 1956 to 1995. The paper concentrates on the choice between gradualist or -...

The author addresses the question of interdisciplinary studies based on his own experience. His negative experiences are confirmed by the results of a quantitative survey demonstrating that the proportion of citations from other disciplines is very low in four examined fields (economics, law,...

The study examines the changes of the Central Eastern European region first in the context of world history. It confirms by comparative historical analyses that the transformation was indeed unique. This has been the only total transformation that took place peacefully, without violence, and at...