By Yasin OkyayBetween 1990 and 2026, Poland nearly tripled its per capita income, becoming one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies. It was the only EU country to avoid recession during the 2008 global financial crisis and the first former Eastern Bloc economy to attain “developed” status. Economist Marcin Piatkowski explains this leap by arguing that Poland dismantled the exclusionary and exploitative social ...