The aim of the study is to identify the macroeconomic implications of privatization in Poland and Russia. The author argues that institutional differences between the two coun-tries led to different consequences of privatization. In Poland, this process allowed the development of entrepreneurship and a significant decoupling of the economy from politi¬cal decisions. In contrast, the transformation in Russia has strengthened the role of the oli-garchs, which in turn led to the strengthening of the relationship between the economy and politics. Long-term consequences of this process are: the monopolization of the Russian economy, dependence on the mining sector and a low potential for innovation.
The aim of this paper is to discuss the problem of bureaucracy in the public sector, and also to identify ways to improve public administration. The author claims that in order to rationalise bureaucracy it is necessary to use several market mechanisms and to increase transparency. Moreover, the paper depicts e-administration as an effective tool that makes public administration more efficient. Another important issue presented in the article is the principal-agent problem and its implications for the public sector.
The aim of this paper is to answer the questions: What are the reasons of difficulties in public-private partnership? And also: How to avoid this difficulties? The author presents a thesis, that further development of this partnership require more transparency and trust between both sectors and also exact procedures and regulations. So raised problem implicates need for more bureaucracy and regulations.
This article is an attempt to explain the role of social media in the network public sphere of the Internet age. The main thesis is that social media are transmitter of the network public sphere actors activity. So formulated thesis forces us to resolve the changes that have taken place in the traditional public sphere, and the reasons for the formation of the network public sphere. Considerations are based on theories of Jürgen Habermas, Richard Sennett, Manuel Castells and case studies that shows forms of social media activity.
This paper concerns the problem of intellectual property law in the context of 3D printing technology, that becomes more popular. In the age of universal digital communication and constant growth of importance of digital information goods, intellectual property is becoming a cause of dispute between different social groups. This is partly because of the impact of informal institutions formed during development of the Internet and social movements postulating free access to information (including the digital information goods). Other important issue is also the problem of public copyright infringement in order to achieve private benefits. Conflicts concerning enforcement of the intellectual property right are related to substantially all of the digitized content: written word, music, movies and software. On one hand the decrease of the costs of copying equipment, allows an average consumer to buy such a printer. On the other hand the increase of the Internet bandwidth makes this phenomenon more significant. 3D printing technology is the next stage of self-production process. This technology goes beyond the abstract world of information to a real world of physical goods. Thus, the violation of property rights refers now not only to information goods, but also to physical products. The authors put the thesis that the development of 3D printing technology will intensify the conflicts and will increase the number of abuses in area of intellectual property law. In this article the authors discuss the development of 3D printing technology, which originally was connected only with so-called rapid prototyping in the product development process. However, with cheaper equipment, this technology became available to a larger number of users who have used it to make the final products. This process was simultaneous to research projects conducted by academic institutions such as RepRap and Fab@Home. The main goal of RepRap project was to create self-replicating machine. The RepRap 3D printer allows to print more 3D printing devices. This project is regulated by copyleft licenses allowing to manipulate within the files with a legal authors permission. Extending the reflections on copyright issue the authors focused on the licenses that allow to share the projects files required for the creation of physical objects. Copyleft licenses are sometimes given illegally. Some of the project files contain elements that are under copyright restriction. This situation was discovered during the analysis of the content shared between users of 3D printers portals. This situation creates a great threat to the enterprises engaged in luxury goods because in this business the main value is the idea – the design. Easy replication provided by 3D printing technology enforces more effective copyright regulations or even modification of the form of distribution of items protected by law. The development of 3D printing technology will inevitably increase the number of conflicts and abu
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