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The article was published in the Journal of Management and Financial Sciences Issue 58, pp. 55-73 (SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Collegium of Management and Finance)   The aim of this article is to attempt to answer the question of what Copernicus’ contribution to the quantity theory of money (QTM) consists in. In order to…

On November 27, 2025, a conference was held at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) to discuss the upcoming book of the same title, “International Development Assistance in the Contemporary World. Framework of Engagement: Poland and Other Players.” The event was organized by the Department of Economic Policy and Monetary Theory within the Institute of…

“Recent thought in economic and social theory such as institutionalism, evolutionism, and communitarianism can be conceived to have originated in the Historical School (…)The importance of the German Historical School cannot be overemphasized in its historical role alone. (…)Its thought was partly implanted in other countries e.g., Great Britain, the United States, and Japan…” Yuichi…

The objective of the book and the criteria for choosing the six economists (Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Pareto and Kuznets) The objective of my book was to look at how most important, in a way, canonical economists, have thought about income distribution. As I say in the Introduction, there are two parts to the questions…

Free-market economists (mainly Austrian) influenced the common belief that private property and limited presence of the state in the economy create the foundations of democracy. After the experience of central planning in Eastern Europe and the dominant role of government in the Chinese economy, it was recognised that the statement about the need for deregulation,…

Inflation has become a serious problem in the global economy affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, which has limited the supply of energy resources. The article by Professor Zbigniew Polański published in “Ekonomista” (No. 6) in 1987 contains analysis of the concepts of inflation created by Polish economists, primarily in the period…

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is widely known as an outstanding astronomer and a versatile man (he was also a physician, theologian and administrator of church property), as befits a representative of the Renaissance. He also made a breakthrough in the social sciences, indicating a threat posed by the state exercising too much control over the actions…

Economic thought is formed by different, sometimes competing theories. Of many things that unite them, the assumptions about human nature that make all analysis possible come to the fore. These assumptions evolved along with the progress of knowledge in various disciplines, translating into modifications of theories recognised by scholars along with the displacement of the…

 23 May 2023 (The Magazine of Warsaw School of Economics) On 16 May 2023, a scientific conference Subsidies or Cash Transfers. Dilemmas of Global Response to Inflation was held at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. The aim of the conference was to discuss the social aid provided in many countries of the world in…

On 1 July 1944, a monetary and financial conference began at a hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA), attended by representatives of 44 allied countries. The result of the conference included the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose main task was to stabilise the exchange rates of national currencies. The main architect…

Conclusion Triffin’s dilemma cannot be called Młynarski’s dilemma, because the latter turned out to be a paradox, which means that these concepts are not identical. Triffin’s dilemma is to some extent an extension of this paradox, because it refers to the problems of the threat to the convertibility of the dollar into gold and the…

Młynarski vs Triffin Although both Młynarski and Triffin considered the GES system a threat to the stability of the international monetary system, they perceived its nature differently. Młynarski was convinced that GES had a built-in inflationary mechanism (Młynarski 1929, p. 87): Having inflationary effects and complicating the process of adjustment of prices, the gold exchange…

Młynarski’s attitude to the Gold Exchange Standard  Triffin’s view on the weaknesses of GES was determined primarily by his knowledge of the specificity of this system in the period of 1922-1931[1], while Młynarski’s attitude (1884-1972) to its defects resulted from his perception of the Polish economist, who considered it as an imperfect substitute for the…

  Economic life, like nature, has its laws but it does not believe in miracles. The reconstruction of the country through printing paper money was an artificial and nervous process. Paper money is like morphine, which excites giving rise to immediate and great but temporary effects, the reaction comes later. Our current crisis is just…

The most important aspect of the centrally planned economy, which was criticised by Zieliński, was the direct calculation connected with the wrong system of incentives. The economic calculation includes all the methods necessary for an economic entity to choose the optimal path to achieve the objective (Juszczyński, 1968, p. 73).The economic calculation in the socialist…

The issue of information asymmetry has always been an important subject of consideration by economists. According to some of them, it is responsible for the market failure and justifies state intervention. Zieliński’s approach to this issue deserves a special attention due to its originality. Zieliński referred to the problem of information asymmetry, referring to the…

Capitalism and socialism and the problem of monopolisation The monopolisation of the capitalist economy at the turn of the 20th century led to social tensions due to the growing gap between the level of remuneration of the labour factor and the profits from capital. Economists, faced with the increasing role of large companies in manufacturing,…

Introduction to the chapter The Wakar School of Economics by Ryszard Bartkowiak (excerpted from Janusz Gedymin Zieliński 1931-1979. Portrait of an economist, Warsaw School of Economics) If a school of scientific thinking is considered to be a circle of researchers who, initially focus on their master and founder, profess and develop a common scientific view,…

Introduction to Janusz Gedymin Zieliński 1931-1979. Portrait of an economist by Małgorzata Korczyk This book, devoted to the achievements of Janusz Gedymin Zieliński, is important not only because of the value of the memory of a prominent Polish economist, but also because of the topicality of some of the issues which the author raises. The…

We often wonder whether theories in the field of social sciences created decades or hundreds of years ago can be useful in the analysis of contemporary phenomena. This problem also applies to economic theories, which create the science of economics not by means of the direct accumulation of knowledge and replacement of old concepts with…