Kazimierz Laski is responding to the following questions:

How did you become an economist, and who were your teachers?

How do you think economics has developed over recent decades?

What do you see as the causes of high rates of growth in central and eastern Europe? And how do you see the impact of EU enlargement on those countries?

In the book you wrote with Wlodzimierz Brus, From Marx to the Market, you tackle the market socialist models applied in Hungary and Yugoslavia, models that are now consigned to history. But are those production models also now obsolete? Can market socialism still work, and is it something we should be aiming for?