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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

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

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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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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.

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

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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Statesman

Born: June 19th, 1941

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