Vladimír Benáček Livres

Professor Josef Macek (1887-1972) was an important inter-war period economist, a leading personality of Czech Keynesianism. He became famous thanks to his polemics with the economist and minister of finance Karel Engliš on the questions of monetary and budget policy at the time of the economic crisis. After his emigration in 1948, he taught economics at the University of Pittsburg. This essay from the end of Macek's career, published for the first time, deals with the social-science methodology with special emphasis on the education to critical thinking. The work is published in the original English version.

he study aims to analytically interlink the optics of individuals and households and focus on their demographic and socio-economic behaviour since 1989 in the Czech Republic, and compare these observations with other EU countries, primarily those of Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The fields covered are family formation and life trajectories, earnings disparities and income inequality, the situation of self-employed and family businesses, and religion affiliation of individuals and households. Vladimir Benacek, Eva Michalikova, Martina Mysikova, Olga Nesporova, Zdenek R. Nespor, Jiri Vecernik