Tis only as the shades of night are falling that the Owl of Minerva spreads her mighty wings and takes to flight. (Hegel) The paper “Whence Reform?” by the Polish economists Marek Dabrowski, Stanislaw Gomulka, and Jacek Rostowski (DGR) is a welcome and revealing commentary on what is called...

This paper deals with Russia’s transition from communism to market economy which has been harder than anticipated just a decade ago. The rise in prosperity that the market economy had promised had not been materialised. But, in other transition countries from successes and failures, lessons...