Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New pragmatism for new times -- Chapter 3. Political system and socio-economic development -- Chapter 4. People’s planet -- Chapter 5. Leadership: economics and politics of great change -- Chapter 6. One-third of the century of transformation -- Chapter 7....

Globalization is a vague concept, used for some time, whose various stages can be traced to the XV century. From the economic perspective it is the historical process of gradual liberalization followed by progressive integration of fragmented capital and commodity markets, the markets of...

When it seems that everything or nearly everything has been said about the prerequisites and prospects of economic growth - in the Polish context, too (Kolodko 2002b and 2002c; Noga 2004) - it is worthwhile to revisit certain aspects of this phenomenon, which is of vital importance for the...