This short note introduces the debate on the future of economic policy and reform of capitalism, to be hosted in a new temporary section of the journal. It is essential to debate how to achieve a balance between 'bread' (economic security) and 'liberty' (political freedom), in a dynamic sense,...

This book is highly relevant to current debates on market socialism and to the continuing problems of Eastern European countries as they reform their economies. It is a work of original scholarship by two economists who were involved as experts in the reform of the Polish economy in the 1950s...