Grzegorz W. Kolodko is founder and director of TIGER - Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland.

Part I. How to Avoid Economic Death: The Political Economy of Pandemic

Chapter 1. Times of Plague

Chapter 2. After the Calamity: Prospects of Recovery and Growth

Chapter 3. Politics and Policies in the Post-Pandemic World

Part II. Facing Future Development Challenges

Chapter 4. The New Pragmatism, or Economics and Policy for the Future

Chapter 5. Imperative of Heterodoxy

Chapter 6. Emerging Markets or Emancipating Economies?

Chapter 7. Socialism, Capitalism, or Chinism?

Chapter 8. Look to the Horizon and Beyond

Chapter 9. Chinism and the Future of the World

Part III. Pragmatism as a Key Factor for Socio-Economic Progress

Chapter 10. The Great Chinese Transformation: from the Third to the First World

Chapter 11. Income, Fiscal Transfer and Conflicts of Economic Interests

Part IV. Economics of Success versus Economics of Failure

Chapter 12. Chinese Economy at the Era of Globalization

Chapter 13. Recipe for a Crisis

Chapter 14. How to Destroy a Country. The Economics and the Politics of the Greek Crisis

Chapter 15. Economics and Politics of the Currency Convergence: the Case of Poland

Chapter 16. Determinants and Implications of the Eurozone Enlargement

It is an inspiring, interdisciplinary study in the field of social sciences that analyses the most important challenges facing the world economy and modern civilization. Grzegorz W. Kolodko explains in a comprehensible way the contradictions of ideas and interests and practical ways of solving them and its implications for our future.