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Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

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Paper, 464 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15069-9
$28.95 / £20.00

January, 2011
Cloth, 464 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15068-2
$39.95 / £27.50

The Navigator

1: The World, by Words

2: How Things Happen: Economic Processes—What Science, by Policy

3: A Brief History of the World and What We Can Learn from It: Why Some Countries Are Wealthy and Others Poor, by and Whether It Must Always Be So

4: Globalization—and Then What? Where Globalization Originated and How to Come Out Ahead in the Era of Worldwide Interdependence

5: The World As It Is: How People Are Coping in Various Corners of a Changing World

6: The Withering of Neoliberalism and Its Tattered Legacy: Why a Harmful Concept Rose to Temporary Ascendancy in Half the World and What to Do about It

7: What Development Is and What It Depends On: Where Socioeconomic Development Comes from and How It Can Make Us Happy

8: Stagnation and Development—Institutions, by Policy

9: The Coincidence Theory of Development and the New Pragmatism: What Output Growth and Economic Development Depend On and How to Make Them Better

10: The Uncertain Future: What Awaits Us in the Near and Distant Future, by and What Say We Have in It

A Letter

Index

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About the Author

Grzegorz W. Kolodko, an intellectualist and policymaker, was Poland's deputy prime minister and minister of finance from 1994 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. He is now a professor of political economy at Kozminski University in Warsaw and the author of nearly forty books and dozens of research papers. He enjoys marathon running and photography, and as a devoted globetrotter, he's explored close to one hundred fifty countries.Grzegorz W. Kolodko was Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 1994 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. He is now a professor of political economy at Kozminski University in Warsaw and has authored nearly forty books.

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