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Wkład ekonomistów polskich do rozwoju nauki ekonomii w okresie międzywojennym
The Input of Polish Economists to the Development of Economics during the Interwar Period

Author(s): Aleksandra Lityńska
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
Keywords: nomothetic and social character of economics; statics and dynamics; mathematical methods; partial and general equilibrium

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to assess what impact Polish economists had on the development of domestic and global economic thought, both on the micro and macro levels, during the interwar period. Their works include a number of innovative ideas that went beyond the concepts of the western economy. A particularly valuable, methodological achievement was to point out both the nomothetic and social character of economic science as well as the national thought of the time. Polish scientists contributed to the economy original static and dynamic concepts, and appreciated the importance of mathematical methods in scientific research. They put theory into practice. They not only recognised but went beyond the idea that economics was a formal discipline; “pure” theory was complemented with qualitative analysis of factors shaping the structure of industrial manufacturing. As such, methods including the partial equilibrium, general equilibrium and also statistical surveys were used to show the economic changes in Poland.

  • Issue Year: 897/2012
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 135-145
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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