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Privatising Capital examines the historical development of Poland’s public sector and its welfare state. Their infrastructure, services and employees add up to a form of public capital, upon which the vast majority of society is dependent. The book describes the ongoing attempts to financialise and commodify this public capital and examines how this occurs in the areas of health, education and pensions. It also analyses the impact of public capital on the ideas and opinions of the population and how it affects contemporary ideologies and politics in Poland.
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Privatising capital, Gavin Rae
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- Title
- Privatising capital
- Subtitle
- The Commodification of Poland’s Welfare State
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gavin Rae
- Publisher
- Lang-Ed.
- Publisher
- 2015
- ISBN10
- 3631657323
- ISBN13
- 9783631657324
- Category
- Social sciences
- Description
- Privatising Capital examines the historical development of Poland’s public sector and its welfare state. Their infrastructure, services and employees add up to a form of public capital, upon which the vast majority of society is dependent. The book describes the ongoing attempts to financialise and commodify this public capital and examines how this occurs in the areas of health, education and pensions. It also analyses the impact of public capital on the ideas and opinions of the population and how it affects contemporary ideologies and politics in Poland.