Survey in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to understand how "the market" has disrupted lives, for better or for worse In the old European democracies, economic liberalization has been accompanied over the same symptoms on one side, the prospect of wealth and new careers, an unprecedented influx of goods, the ability to migrate on the other, State on the verge of bankruptcy, the disappearance of any social protection, the skyrocketing prices, the dismissal of millions of workers with the collapse of old industries. And today? How the financial crisis that has overtaken these young and fragile markets, exchange she gives? In addition to the ordinary citizens of three countries, who were at different times, the architects of this "another revolution" show: the Polish economist Leszek Balcerowicz, who in the first postcommunist government, ended the planned economy; the current Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel Schwarzenberg, a close adviser to Vaclav Havel after the Velvet Revolution, the former Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, described by the World Bank to champion reforms, and the former directors of the IMF, Michel Camdessus, and the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Jean Lemierre.