The authors recount the events of the period following the suucession to power of the Solidarity-led government, examining the course taken by the new government and the significance of this for transition in Poland and elsewhere.
Henryk Kierzkowski is the Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, and is also Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva;,
Marek Okolski is Professor and Director of the Polish Policy Research Group, Warsaw University;,
Stanislaw Wellisz is Professor of Economics at Warsaw University and at Columbia University, New York.