Jan Winiecki is Professor of Economics at the European University-Viadrina, Germany, and Vice-President of the Polish Society of Market Economists. A former member of Walesa's political advisory committee, he was the founder and first president of the free market think-tank Adam Smith Research Center, and Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He has three books published by Routledge, most recently as the co-editor, with A. Kondratowicz, of The Macroeconomics of Transition: Developments in East-Central Europe (1993).

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 2 Building Institutions in the Third Republic, Antoni Z. Kami?ski, Jan Stefanowicz; Chapter 3 The Financial Markets, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 4 The Labor Market, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 5 Competition and Openness under Growing Interventionist Pressure, Jan Winiecki; Chapter 6 The Social Security System, Aleksandra Wiktorow; Chapter 7 Property Rights, Private Sector and Public Attitudes toward Institutional Change, Jacek Szymanderski, Jan Winiecki;