Some notes on the context

I was encouraged to develop my concerns about text above and add some context both waiting long for authors response and reading the reaction of one of common friends of mine and secondary author about the lack of exact arguments against the Thatcher economist policy : mostly, the lack of scientific publications on social policy etc. As the person who works only in a technical staff of a polish economic institute only for a few years and has academic degree in natural science I regret for my lack of deep knowledge of economics and politics and unavoidable cliche and errors then.

I do not consider the article above (published before in polish highly circulated newspaper ) as an strictly economic one. It’s really sounds to me more like a sentimental politics declaration. And I do not share known to me from the social networks discussions the right conservative point of view of the second author. I’m a sympathizer of democratic-liberal organizations like http://www.liberte.pl/ and supporter of ideas like open government or e-government.

This missing context appears to me a key to interpretation of this political text and its critique and whether authors do not want to be considered as a politics but as academics then the avoidance of discussion is inexcusable.

More notes on Thatcher’s policy

As a part of cold war and policy of ‘Airstrip One’ the Thatcher’s policy could be understood and estimated with its successes and faults.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/social-mobility-inequality-conservative-thatcher http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/thatcherism_01.shtm

But it could not be forgotten that : “Margaret Thatcher made two significant contributions to poverty in the UK. She massively increased it, leaving at the end of the Conservative tenure one in three children living in households with less than half the average income (the official definition of poverty). Then she said it did not exist.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/04/99/thatcher_anniversary/334316.stm

The person who said that “There is no such thing as society” should not be in my opinion an icon for Polish society who still needs to develop its social capital to prosper

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/12/polish_winter_vacation

http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~jg23234/EuropeanSocieties.pdf

regards, W.M.Saj

To mention about high children poverty rate, unemployment and “There is no such thing as society”.

In contemporary Europe immigration is much easier, people show what they think just leaving the country.