Polen: Weiterhin Maximierung der Wachstumsraten?
Poland: Continue to maximize Growth Rates?

Summary/Abstract: The following article, written by the Polish ZK member and editor-in-chief of the Warsaw "Polityka", M. Rakowski, is a controversial issue in Marxist growth theory. According to this, the intangible sector is not growth-promoting and makes no contribution to the national income. Therefore, the Polish economic planners faced the difficult situation in which they wanted to promote the intangible sector out of wealth considerations, but on the other hand - for ideological reasons - could not do without maximizing growth. Especially with this latter attitude Rakowski is grappling. The "Guidelines" adopted for the 8th Party Congress of the Polish Communist Party (February 1980) have since made cuts to the overheated growth policy, but have increased investment in the housing, consumer goods, raw materials, energy and transport sectors (see Trybuna Ludu, October 29, 1979). SOURCE: M. Rakovsky: O wariantowaniu rozwoju w latach osiemdziesiątych [About development prospects in the eighties], in: Gospodarka planowa, 12/1978, pp. 616-622)

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