Grzegorz Witold Kolodko is a distinguished professor of economics at Kozminski University (Warsaw, Poland). He is a key architect of Polish economic reforms and a public intellectual and politician. He has been Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance in Poland, 1994-7 and 2002-3. He is Member of Academia Europaea, and Director of Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, TIGER, at Kozminski University. He is one of the world's most quoted Polish economists, Marathon runner and globetrotter who has explored 170 countries. 

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. New pragmatism for new times.- Chapter 3. Political system and socio-economic development.- Chapter 4. People's planet.- Chapter 5. Leadership: economics and politics of great change.- Chapter 6. One-third of the century of transformation.- Chapter 7. Shortageflation 3.0: war economy - state socialism - pandemic crisis.- Chapter 8. The irreversibility of globalization.- Chapter 9. Ending, or how to row uphill