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426 1. The World, Words, and Meaning systemic change in The Polish Miracle: Lessons for the Emerging Markets (Burl- ington, VT: Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005). 9 . Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002). 10 . Robert Gwiazdowski, “Stiglitz: falszywy prorok” [Stiglitz—a false prophet], Forbes [Polish edition], Dec. 2006, p. 144. 11 . Andrew Reynolds, introduction to Victor Erofeyev, Life with an Idiot , trans. Andrew Reynolds (London: Penguin, 2004), pp. xx. 12 . Wisława Szymborska, “List,” translated by Stanisław Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, Monologue of a Dog (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006), pp. 83–87. 13 . Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime (New York: Penguin, 2005). 14 . Montaigne, Essays , Charles Cotton translation (1877), I, 9. 15 . See, for instance, Paul Ekman, Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Market- place, Marriage, and Politics (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), and Chris Thur- man, The Lies We Believe (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1989). 16 . David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 2005). 17 . John R. Lott and Kevin A. Hassett, “Is Newspaper Coverage of Eco- nomic Events Politically Biased?” Social Science Research Network, 2004, www.ssrn.com. 18 . Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin state that the KGB managed to place no fewer than 1,980 articles in the Indian press in 1976, and 440 in the Pakistani press in 1977. These are only examples of a form of information ma- nipulation that was practiced universally and, of course, by both sides during the Cold War. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (New York: Basic Books, 2005). 19 . Janos Kornai, By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). 20 . World Bank, The State in a Changing World (New York: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 1977); Janos Kornai, The Role of the State in a Post-Socialist Econ- omy: Distinguished Lecture Series (Warsaw: Leon Kozminski Academy of En- trepreneurship and Management, 2001), www.tiger.edu.pl; Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007); Fukuyama, State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004). 21 . Wei-Bin Zhang, Economic Growth Theory: Capital, Knowledge, and Eco- nomic Structures (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005); Elhanan Help- man, The Mystery of Economic Growth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). Mathematical formulas take precedence over words and domi- nate the discourse in the former book. The latter book, containing no formu- las at all, represents one of the best studies of the issues of economic growth.

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