Koncepcja aktywnej polityki strukturalnej państwa w świetle zachodnioniemieckiej myśli ekonomicznej

Abstract

Tlie article analyzes causes of enhanced interest in the structural policy in the FRG in, the eighties and it presents a conception of an active structural policy in the market economy. The main object of deliberations are the notion and scope of an active structural policy as perceived by the West German economic thought, its main goals and types. It has been pointed out that the structural policy is an independent activity of the state differing from remaining kinds of its activity, which is pursued within the framework of the market economy. The last- -mentioned lactor determines the character of intervention. Its task is to shape economic structures and solve structural problems. It reveals, however, numerous relationships with the remaining kinds of intervention of the state in the economy. The author analyzes also the structural policy of growth-promoting and stabilization character, sectoral and regional structural policy, and the structural policy aiming at: preservation of structures, change of structures, and control of economic structures