Wkład Mikołaja Kopernika do rozwoju myśli ekonomicznej i jego percepcja przez polskich uczonych
Copernicus’s contribution to the development of economic thought and its perception by Polish scholars

Author(s): Mirosław Bochenek
Subject(s): Economy, Economic history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: monetary treatises by Copernicus;law of inferior money;bullion theory of money;
Summary/Abstract: Nicolaus Copernicus developed original concepts. Unfortunately, his writings remained unknown for 300 years. It took Polish scholars more than 200 years to discover and interpret them. The aim of this study is to identify his most important contributions to the field of economics, while the research problem is to try to assess their correct reading. In doing so, the deductive method and the method of critical analysis of literature were used. The author of this study has accessed works about Copernicus written by 125 writers. Of these, 73 dealt with the law of money circulation and only 21 with monetary theory. Of the first group, 36 recognised the Astronomer as the discoverer of the law of inferior money and almost as many attributed its authorship to Thomas Gresham. In contrast, 12 (one of whom later changed his mind) researchers considered Copernicus to be the founder of the bullion theory of money, 9 authors attributed to him a quantitative theory, and 2 ascribed to him the nominalist theory.

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