%0 Journal Article %T The meaning of the private ownership in economy %A Krzysztof Dobrowolski %J Contemporary Economy %D 2010 %I University of Gdansk %X The article analyses the possibility of initiating and functioning of market and competition¡¯s mechanisms in a nationalized economy and in a market economy (in which private enterprises dominate).The analysis showed that the market mechanism can not function in a nationalized economy, whereas the competition mechanism assumes a special, deformed form. The both mechanisms can effectively function only in private market economy.In the last part of the article, the problem of semi-privatisation as a result of choice of different privatisation methods was raised. In this part of the article, the analysis of semi-privatisation impact on functioning of market mechanism and competition mechanism on different types of partial markets was also presented. %K Market mechanizm %K Competition mechanizm %K Nationalized economy %K Semi-privatisation %U http://www.wspolczesnagospodarka.pl/?p=334