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• The Changing Roles of the Post-Transitional Economic Elite in Poland

The study characterised evolution of the role of a new economic elite in Poland using the three-elite-generations metaphor: breakthrough elite, transition elite and consolidation elite. Describing this evolution in terms of the neoliberal modernisation paradigm, "elitist paradigm " and transformation theory is insufficient for a theoretical reconstruction of changes occurring in states which, like Poland, are at the stage of development combining characteristics of post-communist, neoliberal and globalised capitalist societies. Other concepts are also useful, such as globalisation theory, world-systems theory or the varieties of capitalism approach that provide a different conceptual framework for the role of economic elites.

... system change after the fall of state socialism. The evolution of these roles was undertaken using...To quote Marx, they were a "class in itself, rather than a ...

• Journal for East European Management Studies
• Band 13 Nr. 4, Oktober 2008

• A European Social Model of State-Market Relations*: The Ethics of Competition From a 'Neo-Liberal' Perspective

This paper portrays "neo-liberalism" in its original conceptual meaning as opposed to the generic term of depreciation which it is commonly used. Fair competition is identified and the denial of all privilege is declared as the major concern of neo-liberals. Ethical merit for competition might, at first sight, be based on only two principles: individual natural rights (equal liberty) and socially desirable outcomes ("unintended altruism"). It was the neo-liberal idea to put fairness-norms or universally applicable rules of just behavior between an unqualified "input-based" ethics and an unqualified "output-based" ethical consequentialism. The enforcement of such rules is a major obligation of the state. Today, the European Union assumes the role of "guardian" of competition. In a certai...

... "Communism" with "Neo-liberalism", Marx's quote offers a rather accurate description of today's po... The old doctrine had allowed "monopoly capitalism" to discredit the market economy and to thus disto...Collectivist "social models" such as socialism and fascism were originally invented and tested in...

• Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
• Band 9 Nr. 1, Januar 2008