This book deconstructs the public performance of technological innovation and imagined modernity in relation to the home technologies market in late state socialist Poland. While doing so, Patryk Wasiak sheds light on the politics that accompanied the modes of representations of the new...

"Value Added Tax (VAT) is the backbone of the EU Member States tax systems. However, the rules for taxing Intra-Community delivery created opportunities for so called 'Missing Trader Intra Community fraud' (MTIC). Together with shadow economy' they represent VAT noncompliance - proxied by so...

"The book takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution"....

"This book presents a detailed projection model to estimate future demand for care among older people. Using Poland as a case study, the author examines the impact of population ageing and changes in intergenerational relations on informal care provision. The book provides a comprehensive...