Has passed ten years after issue of my book "the Way to free economy" . In it the basic directions of postsocialist transformation for the first time have been formulated. In the given job I will try to estimate the former sights how to me it sees ten years later. From the point of view of an index - the important criterion of success in the scientific world - "the Way to free economy", certainly, was rather popular book (on it some hundreds links have been made). But in it recommendations of political character contained, therefore we will ask more serious question: my book has rendered what influence on a situation in the world? When I began the job, I would like though in small degree to influence on public opinion and process of acceptance of political decisions and, hence, finally - a course of events. I will try to avoid attempts of the self-justification in the maximum degree and to save the critical approach, but I am ready to prove some my former positions if they have sustained check by time.
How it is possible to establish backdating, whether there were ideas of the book correct or not? Insufficiently simply to compare them with the facts. If my recommendations were wrong coincidence of a real course of events to them can mean a failure and, on the contrary, discrepancy, most likely, testifies to successful development. Initially the book has been written for the Hungarian readers. In the foreword to its transfers into foreign languages it was noticed, that the recommendations formulated in it cannot be applied mechanically to other countries. Though I believed, that many of them have universal character, their adaptation to concrete conditions of this or that country nevertheless was required. Therefore in the given job I have counted expedient to concentrate on experience of Hungary, supplementing with its links to a situation in Poland, Czechia and Russia. From all variety of the problems considered in the article "the Way to free economy", I will be limited to the analysis only two. The first-reform of the property. As today it is represented to me, my former recommendations in this area were basically correct. The second problem - macroeconomic stabilisation. Here the situation is not so unequivocal. My present position consists that then I was right only partially.
