The study focuses on evaluation of institutional quality in European Union countries and its possible impact on economic performance and competitiveness. The text stems from the theoretical framework of new institutional economics, especially historical and comparative institutionalism, and it...

This article provides a general account of the Polish transition from socialist central planning to a market economy and tries to explicate the main causes of the relative success of this transition. The second section offers an overview of the main steps in the reform process. It begins with a...

The author highlights the striking difference between the economic transition of the Czech Republic and Hungary. These two countries, roughly of the same size and same level of development, have traveled on markedly diverging paths toward relative prosperity. After the velvet revolution of 1989,...

The synthesis of cameralism and the classical school of political economy was implemented on university premises in the Czech Lands as the education of Adam Smith was adopted. It was spread out by presentations of Wenzel Gustav Kopetz, the Professor of political economy at the University of...

This book is based on different approaches towards the research dealing with values. It is focused on existing values which are present in the Czech society from 1970´s untill nowadays. The basic principles of qualitative research are introduced with case studies from sociology,...

The privatization strategy in many transition economies involved the creation of a special government agency that administered state property during privatization programs as well as after the privatization was declared complete. The National Property Fund (FNM) was the agency in the Czech...

Tato studie prezentuje pìt indikátorù používaných pro mìøení kvality podnikatelského prostøedí ve visegrádských zemích a shrnuje jejich výsledky. Jedná se o index vnímání korupce, agregátní indikátory správy, index zajetí (státu), index neprùhlednosti a index rizika...

This article was published in the Czech Journal “Plánované hospodářství” in 1967. This was the time of rapid changes both in the Czechoslovak economic and political theory as well as in actual economic and political systems that culminated in the “Prague Spring” of 1968. These...

The authors critically discuss some of the theses of Svetozar Pejovich from his article On the Privatization of "Stolen Goods" in Central and Eastern Europe. The Independent Review, v. X, N. 2, Fall 2005, s. 209-229. ISSN 1086- 653. Their polemic can be summarized as follows: (1) According to...