The Turning Points of World History. Financial and Methodological Interpretations

Preface: Antoni Kukliński, Krzysztof Pawłowski, Jan Swianiewicz
Antoni Kukliński: Introduction: Why turning points?

Part one: Turning points-the field of the debate
Louis Emmerij: The Great Turning Point 2007-2012
Comprehensive comments by:
Elżbieta Mączyńska
Jan Woroniecki
Katarzyna Żukrowska
R. P. Misra: Turning points of twentieth century. A discourse on continuity and change
Paul Drewe: Long waves of innovation as turning points?
Andrzej P. Wierzbicki: Fundamental innovations, turning points and cycles
Antoni Kukliński: Knowledge based economy versus wisdom based economy. The dilemma of the XXI century?
Julian Auleytner: The 21st Century University-A Producer and Conveyor of Knowledge

Part two: The methamorphosis of capitalism. A turning point in world history?
Elżbieta Mączyńska: Towards a new economic Paradigm
Jan Woroniecki: Beneath the crisis: decline or metamorphosis of capitalism?
Katarzyna Żukrowska: Crisis 2008+ as a Turning Point in Europe, America, Asia and the Rest of the World: How the Global Economy Can Change, Profiting from the Past Downturn?
Jan Lambooy: Change and continuity-periods of economic turning points
Valtteri Kaartemo: Structural changes in international service trade and great transformations in the wealth of nations Hans Van Zon: Towards state-society led development models or resource wars?

Part three: Long duration-turning points-historical interpretation
Anna Zorska: Activity of transnational corporations as a~driver of changes in the world economy
Herman Baeyens: The Great Turning Points of World Urbanisation
Tomasz T. Grosse: Europeanisation as a turning point of modernization processes? The case study of EU rural development policy
Barbara Sawicz: Turning points in the European Union's regional policy
Krzysztof Pawłowski: Polonia Restituta The Turning point 239
Tomasz Zarycki: The Fall of the Soviet Empire as a Turning Point

Part four: The field of the debate revisited
Krzysztof Szczerski: As it was in the days of Noah. Some words on the phenomenon of historical turning points
Anna Gąsior-Niemiec: Turning Points in the Context of Braudelian Longue Durée
Roman Galar: On some potential tipping points of 21st century
Paul Drewe: Turning points-a comment
Antoni Kukliński: Towards a new conceptual framework for turning points analysis

The last Postscriptum of the Reupus Series, Antoni Kukliński

The Authors of the Volume