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2007
Wrocław University of Economics
Wrocław 2007
Editor
Ewa Knichnicka
Verified by Elżbieta Macauley,
Tim Macauley and Ewa Kania
Graphic design: Maciej Szłapka
Printed by: Reprographers of
the Wrocław University of Economics
Order 360/07
300 copies
Published with the help of a grant
from the State Committee for Scientific Research
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ... 5
Jędrzej Chumiński, Bogusław Fiedor
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS REPRESENTED AT WROCŁAW
UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS…... 9
Leszek Balcerowicz
INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR CHANGES ... 31
Andrzej Stanisław Barczak
UNIVERSUM, LOGOS AND RES SPECIES ... 43 Giuseppe Calzoni, Valentina Bacchettini
A NOTE ON THE ROOTS OF THE THEORIES OF PERSONAL INCOME DISTRIBUTION
IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT... 49
Giuseppe Calzoni, Cristiano Perugini, Fabrizio Pompei
SKILL-BIASED EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND INCOME INEQUALITY:
A CROSS COUNTRY ANALYSIS... 63
Michał Maciej Kostecki
VESTED INTERESTS AND TRADE POLICY-MAKING: THE INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS AND NGOS
IN TRANSITION AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES... 97
Leszek A. Maciaszek
AN INVESTIGATION OF SOFTWARE HOLONS
– THE ‘adHOCS’ APPROACH ... 125
Emil Panek, Paweł Kliber
OPTIMAL TAX PROGRESSION ... 165
Maria Romanowska
Jochen Schumann
HUMAN CAPITAL, KNOWLEDGE, AND INNOVATIONS... 199
Władysław Welfe
KNOWLEDGE CAPITAL
AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY... 211
Teresa Znamierowska
AN ECONOMIST, AN ENGINEER
