The Polish Transformation

<p><em>The Polish Transformation</em> takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution".</p><p>Since Kowalik actually never extended his argument to support this thesis, the aim of this study is to answer the following question: If some important reflections on the revolutionary character of the Polish transformation scattered throughout Kowalik''s works were to be found, would they together constitute a convincing justification for the thesis of the "epigonic bourgeois revolution"? </p>