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Abstract: The dominant role in the so-called "Velvet Revolution" was played by three economists at the Academy of Sciences´Forecasting Institute, namely Václv Klaus, Vladimír Dlouhý and Valter Komárek. Later economists from the Forecasting Institute an the Economics Institute (also part of the Academy) formed a group, offered their expertise to the Civic Forum and pushed through their conception of the transformation of the Czechoslovak exonomy towards a market economy. Klaus and Dlouhý both joined the Civic Forum (Klaus co-authored the plataform declaration Co chceme [What we want], and was a member of the expert and tactical committee as well as the expanded crisis team; Dlouhý acted as a link between the Civic Forum leadership and the group of Academy economists that proposed the future composition of federal ministries concerned with economic affairs). As for Komárek, it was not clear at first whether or not he was favourably disposed towards the Civic Forum; rather, he appeared to be anticipating a reform-Communist solution, and played his own game clearly aiming to become federal prime minister, something Klaus was openly opposed to. None the less, all three men, with Civic Forum suppport, became ministers in the "Government of National Understanding". It must be emphasized that in this period there was no difference between the individual economists concerning their views on the method of economic transformation based on the latest background material (titled Dominanty) compiled by the Forecasting Institute. The beginnings of the "dispute over economic reform can be traced to mid-March 1990. Other economists at the Forecating Institute, apart from Václav Valeš whose name does not appear in the literature or sources for this period, did not directly take part in the events tha began on the first day of the "Velvet Revolution" (17 November) and continued till the final composition of the new government (10 December). |
