"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."

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"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."

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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."

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"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."

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"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."

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"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."

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"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."

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"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."

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"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."

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"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."

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"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence."

Art, Science, Strategy, Reform

"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."

Time, Economy, First, Managers

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