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RMUEBGRAIKINATERVIEW
Leszek Balcerowicz IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO
EXTEND THE FREEDOM, ESPECIALLY
The key economic reformer THE ECONOMIC FREEDOM
of post-socialist Poland
Mr. Balcerowicz, you are L. Balcerowicz: Well, perhaps interested in reforms as a young
definitively a historic figure in as a reformer, because I accepted academic even in the late 1970-
Poland’s post-communist era. You the job in the Government, not ties.
have played so many important because I was interested in
roles in your professional career. politics, but I realized that it is Re-shaping the society as
How do you prefer to see yourself, a unique moment in Poland. We a whole, in which you greatly
as a professor, central banker, finally became free from Soviet participated in the case of Poland,
minister of finance, a politician, or dominance and we could reform is one of the most complex and
simply, as a society transformer? and make Poland grow. And I was demanding tasks and missions one
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