This is in support of the governement program of transformation from the Soviet-type economy, to the free market economy in Czechoslovakia after the fall of Communism. The basic lines of the government program, that was outlined by Vaclav Klaus, are defended against the leftis criticism that...

Presented at the Conference about Transition to a Market Economy in Baltic States, in Bergen, Norway, 1994. The paper gives an overview of diverse views on three basic questions: 1) Why did Communism collapse? 2)Why the transition to the Market Economy has been so difficult? and 3)Why some...

This is a brief but critical survey of the life and accomplishments of the Czech economist Ota Sik. He joint Communist Youth organization already before the WWII. During the war, he was in the Mauthausen concentration camp, together with the future secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party...