Economic Balance and Growth 2010-2019 [antikvár]

Preface to the 2nd Revised Edition I finished the second, revised edition of my book in the autumn of 2020, so now it covers a whole decade from 2010 to 2019. This provides the whole picture and offers readers insight into the most successful decade of the Hungarian economy in the 100 years after the Treaty of Trianon was signed. It is time to admit that even back in mid 2009, when we started planning the character of the new economic policy to be launched in 2010, the way to set the budget back on track as well as the measures restarting growth, somewhere deep in our hearts and minds we were preparing for a response of historic proportions. We intended to give a snappy response of success to the Treaty of Trianon, aU the Hungarian failures in the 20th century and the challenges of the 21st century. In our minds' eye, we saw Himgary's rebirth, which was first just a dream, but it was realised by the end of the decade, giving back hope and self confidence to the Hungarians dispersed across the Carpathian Basin and the world, thereby strengthening national consciousness and commimity values. We knew that this was impossible to achieve with only economic and financial instrtiments, but we also knew that they were nevertheless vital. It was clear that first we had to restore order to the economy and finance to help reahse all the other dreams of famiUes, communities and the nation as a whole. Let us see what happened in this glorious decade: 1. The order of our tasks was straightforward. First, a political turnaround was required to provide a mandate for bringing a new economic policy on its way. The Hungarian parliamentary elections, won by a two-thirds majority in 2010 under the leadership of Viktor Orbán, supplied the democratic mandate that was a sine qua non or solid basis throughout the decade for reorganising the entire economy. 2. An excellent group of planners was also needed to develop the new economic policy, and the Prime Minister also provided "all the frills" for the team preparing to implement turnarounds that would go down in economic history: the economic and financial super ministry, the