ABSTRACT:
It is shown that the capitalist world economy, in its interactions with Poland, deformed post-war socialist development to a great extent. Poland's agriculture is still deeply affected by the pre-war structures. It is shown with macro-quantitative analysis, based on the data set by Taylor and Jodice (1983), that complex interactions between state bureaucracy, foreign technology and capital, and agrarian structures explain slow growth and skewed income distribution both on a cross-national level as well as for the Polish case.
