Observations on the Future of Economic Reform in Poland

Abstract

After decades of experience in socialist socio-economic patterns, and in socialist planning in particular, some re-evaluation of the underlying concepts and premises seems desirable. This is not only because we have accumulated new intellectual inputs after years of theorizing and practicing. In addition to the vast body of real experience available, the socio-economic reality is showing some important lines of change both within the national and wider socpe. Thinking patterns have to be adapted to the changing life. Man should not become a servant of the tools he himself has created, and this is true for both, physical tools and constructs of the mind. This calls for some new conceptualization in the field of socio-economic patterns of the socialist economy with a view to their most desirable shape for the future. This is the main subject matter of the forthcoming observations.