This work is an attempt to assess to what extent the new economic governance of the EU helped to discipline public finances in the member states. The poor institutional design of the EU, the authors point out, magnified the negative fiscal effects of the last financial crisis. The work attempts to examine the degree of fiscal consolidation of member states. Both, the austerity policies, as a method of consolidating public finances, and the so-called non-Keynesian fiscal polic...

This book is a valuable synthesis of relations between USA and USSR in the 1970s seen through the prism of trade relations which Washington used for two distinctive purposes: as a “reward” mechanism encouraging cooperation, or conversely, as a tool of “punishment” in response to undesired activities. Such an instrumental approach to economic issues in the 1970s was not anything new in American foreign policy. The analysis of American trade policy – based on two case studies: ...

The study attempts to address three research problems: 1. What is the status and significance of the MSE-sector enterprises in selected CEE countries? 2. What reporting obligations do enterprises from the MSE sector have? 3. What is the possible improvement orientation with regard to MSE-sector reporting in the CEE countries in terms of sustainable development? This monograph aims to conduct a cross-country comparative analysis of the financial reporting requirements of mi...

Bohumila Hrabala i Umberta Eco łączyć może bodaj tylko późny debiut. Obaj weszli w świat literackiej prozy narracyjnej u progu tak zwanego wieku Abrahamowego. Hrabal (rocznik 1914), wyraźnie starszy od Eco (rocznik 1932), próbował wcześniej, bez większego powodzenia, zostać poetą; Eco dał się najpierw poznać jako autor ksiąg uczonych. Kiedy pisałem i redagowałem zebrane tu szkice, nie sądziłem, że dojdzie do spotkania Włocha z Czechem w jednym tomie, i nie wiem, kiedy wpadł ...

The monograph presents the results of research conducted in Poland and Greece. The originality of the monograph is also evidenced by its interdisciplinarity - it combines issues related to the enterprise sector and financial institutions, indicating opportunities for and threats to their development. The book consists of three main parts divided into thirteen chapters. The first part of the book is titled The macroeconomic factors of businesses development and analyses the co...

Grzegorz Kinelski - Competitiveness and Efficiency Management Through Cognitive Technologies in the Digital Economy

This volume was published with the financial support of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Social Movements and Mobilisation Typologies in the Arab Spring project

Shady Networks offers unique insights into the criminal history of twentieth-century communist Poland. Built around case studies at the intersections of government institutions, business, foreign trade, and the criminal underworld, the book scrutinizes the organization of particular social settings, analyzing the circumstances, contexts, and mechanisms that enabled their growth. Shady networks existed in the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) irrespective of Marxist ideology and ...

In an introduction to proceedings of the conference 'Images and Myths of Europe', organised in 2002 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Romano Prodi wrote: "These 'Images and Myths of Europe' remind us that tomorrow's European Union cannot be based exclusively on economics and that, if Europe is become a positive example for the whole world, it is perhaps necessary to place greater emphasis on ethical and aesthetic values. [...] Looking beyond day-to-day c...

This book explores an important but often neglected aspect of a firm's finances: trade credit management (TCM). When firms offering credit to each other so purchases can be made on open account it is a vital source of business-to-business credit flows. Trade credit is the life-blood of competitive economies. Trade credit involves taking calculated credit risks. In return, selling firms boost sales and profitability. Buying firms get access to credit. But trade credit has to b...

Winner of the US - Russia Relations Book Prize from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalise the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections, built up during Russia's oil, gas and commodities boom: global equity and capital markets, and trans...

W uczeniu maszynowym odkrywanie związków przyczynowych daje możliwości, jakich nie można uzyskać tradycyjnymi technikami statystycznymi. Najnowsze trendy w programowaniu pokazują, że przyczynowość staje się kluczowym zagadnieniem dla generatywnej sztucznej inteligencji. Niezbędna okazuje się więc znajomość grafów przyczynowych i zapytań konfrontacyjnych.Dzięki tej książce łatwo przyswoisz teoretyczne podstawy i zaczniesz je płynnie wdrażać w rzeczywistych scenariuszach. Dowie...

Rafał Smoczyński jest autorem cennej monografii z zakresu socjologii ekonomicznej, poświęconej moralnej infrastrukturze działań gospodarczych. Monografia ma wymiar teoretyczny i empiryczny. Ten pierwszy skupia się na klasycznym dorobku socjologii ekonomicznej, zwłaszcza na socjologii Durkheima i współczesnych kontynuatorów jego metodologii (autor odwołuje się przede wszystkim do tekstów Wolfganga Streecka), a także wielokrotnie nawiązuje do Webera, zwłaszcza do rozpowszechnio...