Anna Horodecka

• PhD in Economics and in Theology
• Professor (Associate) at SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Głównym celem artykułu jest przedstawienie, porównanie i ocena współczesnych koncepcji dobra wspólnego sformułowanych przez ekonomistów w odniesieniu do rozumienia dobra wspólnego przez papieży Jana Pawła II i Franciszka. Intencją autorów niniejszego opracowania jest zatem wniesienie wkładu w toczącą się dyskusję na temat dobra wspólnego poprzez pr...

This paper delves into the diverse conceptualizations of the “common good” within the economic discourse and scrutinizes their implications for European integration during the pressing COVID-19 pandemic. Employing a comprehensive literature review, policy analysis, and case study examination, it explores the manifestations of the common good in the...

This paper aims to present and compare contemporary concepts of the common good formulated by economists with reference to the understanding of the common good by the great men of prayer: Augustine of Hippo; Thomas Aquinas; Jacques Maritain; and Popes John XXIII, John Paul II, and Francis. It seeks to determine in what direction the economic theory...

In his article ‘The Nature of the Firm’ Coase Economica 4:386-405, (1937), Ronald Coase enquired why organisations such as firms exist in a specialised exchange economy. He concluded that the main reason to establish and grow a firm is to avoid some of the transaction costs of using the price mechanism. Earlier, a similar issue was considered, albe...

The phenomenon of financialization is multifaceted and can be considered from different points of view. The main purpose of the article is to show how financialization affects the erosion of the common good. To achieve this, various negative sides of financialization are described, referring to the eight principles of the common good: effective use...

W ostatnich latach ekonomiści odnoszą się do społecznie osadzonego modelu jednostki. Rozważają także wpływ społeczeństwa na indywidualne wybory dokonywane przez instytucje. Niektórzy ekonomiści wzmacniają rolę kultury jako mediatora między społeczeństwem a jednostką. Inni autorzy koncentrują się na roli tożsamości społecznych. Te ostatnie umożliwia...

The paper raises the question of irreducibility of collective rationality to individual rationality. The irreducibility of collective rationality to individual rationality is explained by the phenomenon of complexity and complex character of human nature. Taking the complexity theory approach to the analysis of institutions, it discusses the questi...

The scope of the paper is to investigate whether e-learning is a good alternative to achieve business ethics teaching goals in the challenging context of disembedded economies. To achieve this goal, I used various interdisciplinary methods and approaches, content analysis of the relevant literature, and a case study. Firstly, I focus on the current...

Contemporary research exploring the Fair Trade movement does not provide a clear answer whether the overall impact of Fair Trade is positive or negative and what are the real motives of Fair Trade consumers. In the paper we investigate whether the assumptions of selected heterodox schools (feminist, ecological and humanist) fit better to the realit...

Motivation: The article is dedicated to the relationship between a level of wage inequality and such an aspect of macroeconomic instability as unemployment. Inequality is connected with structure variety of a relevant economic system. As variety is an important object of complexity study, it makes sense to consider the relationship between wage ine...

The article regards the main conceptions of the long Kondratiev wave and proposes the hypothesis that connects the length of the K-wave with change of generations. According to the article's hypothesis, a major historical event (e.g. a war or a deep economic recession) that happens in a society at a given time t causes the creation of some institut...

The goal of the paper is to present the changes occurring in the concept of human nature in the modern heterodox economics as the effect of social trends, which are responsible for altering the way of understanding the world, which translates into real changes. Virtualization of life, greater sensitivity to human and environmental issues, increased...

The concept of human nature builds the basis for thinking about economics and its fundamental elements such as methodology, methods and crucial theories. Therefore, changes in the concept of human nature lead to changes in the fundamentals of economics. The goal of the paper is to present this impact using the example of evolutionary and neoclassic...

The article challenges the economic policy based only on mainstream economics and asserts the necessity of the elaboration of new approach to economic policy based on the synthesis of orthodox and heterodox economics. It presents some key ideas of heterodox economics, which can fill gaps of mainstream economics. The article regards issues such as s...

The shape of the economics depends on the concept of human nature, which builds main assumptions of any economical school. This set of assumptions is made about the individual (his/behavior, motives, meaning), interactions with the natural and supernatural powers (worldview) and other people (social world) and provides foundations to the economics....

The following study is devoted to the role of the concept of human nature in the development and implementation of sustainable development policy. It’s discussed, whether and how in the time of economic crises, human concepts underlying the heterodox economic schools, could provide a better basis for the foundations of economics (scope, purpose, me...

The economics depends on the concept of human nature very strongly. The concepts of human nature can be understood as a set of assumptions made about the individual (on different levels: behavior, motives, meaning) and his interactions with other people, with groups and diverse institutions. It corresponds with the image of world people have. The c...

The economics depends on the concept of human nature very strongly. The concepts of human nature can be understood as a set of assumptions made about the individual (on different levels: behaviour, motives, meaning) and his interactions with other people, with groups and diverse institutions. It corresponds with the image of world people have. The...

The sustainable policy is more and more getting a central political concern and the politicians and economists look for the ways of introducing it in an effective way. Religions could provide institutional support, as soon as neoclassical economics doesn’t deliver such one. The neoclassical economics by treating expenditures on environment protecti...

The paper is focussing on the analysis of world's religions responses to problems arising from globalization processes, which in turn are responsible for creating obstacles to further sustainable development. In the first part problems resulting from globalization processes are discussed. The second part is concerned with the characteristic of chan...

The neoclassical economics and its concept of human nature – the homo oeconomicus are criticized by many economists. This orthodox stream of economics is made responsible for not only for failing in explaining actual problems but for providing negative models/patterns of behavior by its image of man. This motivates heterodox economic schools for co...

Celem artykułu jest określenie czynników odpowiedzialnych za zmiany obrazu człowieka w ekonomii oraz ich klasyfikacja. Wyróżniono trzy grupy czynników. Do pierwszej zalicza się zmianę potocznego obra-zu człowieka, do drugiej niespełnianie przez istniejące koncepcje czło-wieka funkcji ekonomii – a więc wyjaśniania i przewidywania faktów ekonomicznyc...

The shape of the economics depends on the concept of human nature, which builds main assumptions of any economical school. This set of assumptions is made about the individual (his/ behavior, motives, meaning), interactions with the natural and supernatural powers (worldview) and other people (social world) and provides foundations to the economics...

The goal of this paper is to present the impact of the concept of human nature alterations on changes in economics. The example is feminist economics, contrasted with ho-mo economicus. Therefore, in the paper the differences in understanding of the definition, goal, field and methodology between these two schools have been explained, as a result of...

Postępowanie jednostek w środowisku zawodowym zależy nie tylko od względnie stałych dyspozycji podmiotowych (np. osobowość, zdolności itp.), czy środowiskowych (np. kultura organizacji, przywództwo itp.), lecz także od sposobu postrzegania przez pracowników funkcjonowania organizacji i wszelkich procesów w niej zachodzą-cych [51]. Ten subiektywny i...

The main goal of this paper is to exhibit the role of the concept of human nature for the ethical orientation of organizational life. Therefore, after presenting some definitions of the concepts of human nature, which depict the complexity of these phenomena, some models of the concepts of human nature are described. Fur- thermore, the setting of t...

Concepts of human nature may be seen as crucial for explaining human behavior, howeverthey are not explored enough in contemporary social sciences and economics. The concepts of human nature may serve as a basis for perceiving the social world, judging the problems occurring in professional life and building relationships with other people at work....

Homo oeconomicus as a model of economic man has a number of deficiencies embossed widely in the literature. This reductionist conception of man is criticized for being inconsistent with empirical research. Moreover it doesn't explain satisfactorily human economic behaviour and not allow for conducting comparisons with other models emerging from oth...

Celem artykułu jest krytyczna ocena aktualnej koncepcji człowieka, jako podstawy ekonomii głównego nurtu, oraz wskazanie na możliwe alternatywne kierunki przemian tej koncepcji. Krytykowana jest tradycyjna koncepcja „homo oeconomicusa”, skupiająca się na problemach metodologicznych, niezgodności z empiryczną wiedzą na temat funkcjonowania człowieka...

"Where is the economics going"? – this is a question formulated by not only economists. The main intention of this paper is to draw attention to the fact that in order to answer the question of „where is going economy”, we need to dig deeper and answer the more fundamental question - "how we perceive the human?",who is not only the object but also...

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja badań porównawczych (Polska, Nowa Zelandia) nad wybranymi uwarunkowaniami i skutkami sprawiedliwości organizacyjnej. Jako determinanty sprawiedliwości w skonstruowanym modelu teoretycznym przyjęto procedury kontroli zachowań i relację wymiany lider-podwładny (LMX). Jako rezultat poczucia sprawiedliwości organizacyjne...

The aim of this paper is to explore and evaluate the meaning of the image of man that the people have for the pro-social activity. The model presented in this paper (empirically validated) explains this relationship. There are some characteristics of humanistic image of man which are missing in the economic model like: value-oriented rationality...

The paper presents the discussion on changes in methodology of economic sciences in the context of changes within philosophy of science. The review of changes in methodology of economy considers the significance of 1970s and 1980s, indicating the likely reasons for the changes and their effects for economy. And thus, the first part of the paper pre...

The model/image of man/human being is a fundamental element of economic theories and therefore for economic policy as well. The policy of sustainable development is considered to be very crucial part of economic policy especially for developed countries which oblige themselves to pursuit goals within this policy in long-term strategies. The aim of...

The article presents the changes in the methodology of economics, which took place after the turn of the 70-80s. They have been shown as outcomes occurring in the philosophy of science. The paper discusses the importance of such philosophical schools as relativism, constructivism, realism, pragmatism as well as the rhetoric on the methodology of ec...

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of „images of man“ for the emergence of various concepts and theories in management. For this purpose, the concept of ,image of men‘ is explained and defined. Furthermore the main functions of these images are distinguished and described and the meaning of „images of men“ for development o...

The article aims to define and classify economic policy objectives according to the methodological approach on which they are based. This is a significant issue that fills a gap in existing research, according to the author. Attempts to define economic policy objectives are often made at random; researchers in countries such as Germany usually limi...

Budżet jest w obecnych czasach bardzo wrażliwym tematem zwłaszcza przy realizacji polityki społecznej. Konieczność zapewnienia harmonii między rozwojem gospodarczym, który hamują zbyt wysokie obciążenia podatkowe, a pokojem społecznym, który zapewnia wystarczająco wysoki poziom zabezpieczenia społecznego (czyli wydatków budżetowych), jest nie tylko...

Obraz człowieka homo sustinens w ekonomii jest koncepcją nową powstałą jako alternatywa dla obrazu człowieka homo oeconomicus. Ta koncepcja posiada zarówno aspekty deskryptywne jak i normatywne. Powstała w reakcji na obecne problemy gospodarcze w tym kryzys i wychodzi od krytyki tradycyjnych modeli w tym homo oeconomicus. Jej deskryptywny charakter...

Filozofia życia powstając w reakcji nie tylko na istniejąc poglądy filozoficzne i naukowe, ale też na przemiany społeczne w końcu XIX-ego i XX w. zaciążyła na późniejszych dyskusjach prowadzonych w ramach filozofii nauk i metodologiach poszczególnych nauk w tym ekonomicznych. Wiele nowoczesnych kierunków ekonomicznych zwłaszcza heterodoksyjnych kor...

W opracowaniu podjęta została próba wykazania, że dotychczasowe ujmowanie kluczowych pojęć, na jakich opiera się większość teorii nie odpowiada ani empirycznym obserwacjom, ani też nie wydaje się być pozyskane w drodze logicznego wnioskowania z bardziej ogólnych teorii. Ma to oczywiście konsekwencje zarówno dla teorii ekonomii jak i dla polityki go...

W artykule zostało pokazane od czego zależą zmiany w metodologii ekonomii oraz dlaczego i w jaki sposób wpływają one na teorie ekonomiczne. Został zaprezentowany i opisany model wpływu od filozofii przez filozofię nauk i metodologię do teorii ekonomii. Ukazanie kierunku zmian począwszy od filozofii wynika z tego, że jest ona uznawana w tradycji nau...

W rozdziale wykazano wpływ systemu społecznego na zmiany zachodzące na rynku pracy, w szczególności na aktywność zawodową kobiet. Podstawy teo- retyczne wpływu systemów na rynek pracy w Unii Europejskiej były prezentowane na konferencji w Jeleniej Górze [Horodecka, 2008]. W formułowaniu hipotezy oparto się na teorii systemów, teorii rynku pracy i t...

Abstract This article focuses on the evolution of aims of employment and social security policy as a consequence of evolving environment. Transformations in the policy are considered in subse-quent stages of evolution in the Western civilization such as: mercantilism, industrialism and postindustrialism. These are supported by examples of selected...

EMPLOYMENT POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT – SELECTED FEATURES OF THE LABOUR MARKET AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN EU ECONOMIES The aim of the article is to describe the impact of changes in the society due to the present third phase of evolution called the “information society” or the “knowledge society” on the...

Evolution of goals influencing the growth of external demand in Great Britain In the view of opening borders, the participation in foreign trade more and more strongly determines the competitive position of a given country. External demand acts as a buffer protecting economy from internal tensions and allows for an increased participation of the co...

Pobudką do napisania tego artyku u by o przede wszystkim zainteresowanie czytelnika potrzeb korzystania z nowych, bardziej adekwatnych po-dej do polityki gospodarczej. Rozpatrywana tutaj propozycja to instytucjonalizm. Wydaje się tradycyjna metodologia polityki gospodarczej przeżywa obecnie kryzys, wi cy si z oscylacj pomi dzy dwoma najcz stszymi p...