The study deals with a new position of social policy in connection with economic reform and in relation with former impugning of its role in society. The component part of economic reform conception was accordingly the restoration of sovereignty and traditional mission of social policy leading...

Karel Kouba belongs among the most prominent Czech economists of the second half of the 20th century. The paper analyzes his major contribution to the Czech economic thought in the context of economic reforms of the Prague Spring of 1968 and of economic transition in 1990s. In the communist era...