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Several Remarks on Transition Economies and the European Monetary Union

English Pages, 16. 6. 1999

The feelings at the end of the 1990´s are definitely different and not so optimistic in spite of the fact that the ex-communist countries underwent a rapid transition.

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Commencement Speech at the DePaul University, Chicago

English Pages, 13. 6. 1999

We should never forget that the absence of freedom, not its presence is the normal state of affairs in the history of mankind. We have to fight for freedom, when there is no freedom, but we have to fight for the preservation of freedom, when there is freedom.

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Transition Economies and Their Current Problems: The Central European Perspective

English Pages, 28. 5. 1999

We are quickly approaching the end of one of the most promising decades of the twentieth century.

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European Monetary Union: The Czech Perspective

English Pages, 26. 5. 1999

As a politician and a former economist, I have a frustrating feeling that everything about EMU has already been said, that there is nothing to add, that there is definitely no lack of knowledge.

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Liberty and the Rule of Law

English Pages, 22. 4. 1999

I do not want to pretend that I know more about liberty than you, that I have a comparative advantage in discussing it, but I would dare to argue that I know more about the absence of liberty, and especially about the tragic consequences of its absence.

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Transition from Communism: A Decade After

English Pages, 21. 4. 1999

It does not seem very productive to describe events which happened ten years ago at the moment of the end of communism or to repeat the famous debates about where to go and how to get there.

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The End of Century: Looked at from Central Europe

English Pages, 16. 4. 1999

do not like strong and easy but deceptive words and concepts but they are sometimes appropriate.

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The Czech Economy and Its Ten Years of Transition

English Pages, 12. 3. 1999

Discussing Czech Republic (and implicitly Central and Eastern Europe) in the spring of 1999, it seems appropriate to mention both the non-negligible and undeniable positive results which have been achieved during the last nine years, and the not less undeniable problems connected with such a unique historical manouvre – with the transition from communism to free society.

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Emerging Markets and Their Current Problems: The Czech Perspective

English Pages, 11. 3. 1999

The decade started with many hopes, which were connected with the collapse of communism, with softening, if not eliminating of the East-West polarity and tensions, and with apparent Rostowian take-off of some developing countries which succeeded in breaking the vicious circle of poverty and underdevelopment.

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The Euro as a Stabiliser in the International Economic System

English Pages, 4. 12. 1998

As a politician and a former economist, I have a frustrating feeling that everything about EMU has already been said, that there is nothing to add, that there is definitely no lack of knowledge.

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