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Artykuł koncentruje się na wpływie polityki inwestycyjnej na konwergencję regionalną w Polsce w latach 1960–1973. Na podstawie oficjalnych statystyk dotyczących regionalnego produktu materialnego netto i brutto oraz struktury zawodowej (sektor materialny/niematerialny) zrekonstruowano poziom PKB dla poszczególnych regionów Polski. Przeprowadzona an...
Als nach dem 2. Weltkrieg Planwirtschaft in Mitteleuropa eingeführt wurde, gab es keine Optionen: Die politisch-ideologische Dominanz der Sowjetunion machte ihr eigenes Modell der administrativen sozialistischen Zentralplanung zur obligatorischen Norm. Das war fatal, als sich rasch herausstellte, dass ein System, das zur Entwicklung der Sowjetunion...
Die Sozialisten sind mit einem radikalen Modernisierungsanspruch angetreten, nämlich die menschliche Emanzipation voranzubringen und eine neue Gesellschaft zu schaffen. Dabei weicht das sozialistische Modernisierungsprojekt in wesentlichen Aspekten vom liberalen Projekt ab. Letzteres ist ein ergebnisoffener Prozess, ersteres hat ein klar formuliert...
Die Ideengeschichte der Ökonomie ist in ihren politisch-institutionellen Kontext zu stellen. Der wies in der DDR und in Polen unterschiedliche Bedingungen und Ausprägungen auf. Typisch für die Entwicklung in der DDR war die personelle Kontinuität über die gesamte Periode, während es in Polen zu einschneidenden Führungswechseln und damit auch politi...
Für das ordnungspolitische Konzept einer sozialistischen Wirtschaft nach sowjetischem Muster spielt die politische Ökonomie des Sozialismus, die in wesentlichen Zügen von Stalin mitgestaltet worden war, eine tonangebende Rolle. Die ostdeutschen Politökonomen blieben diesem Ansatz die längste Zeit treu. Zahlreihe renommierte polnischen Ökonomen unte...
Das kollektivistische Modernisierungsprojekt prägte das kurze 20. Jahrhundert. In der staatssozialistischen Ausprägung des ‚real existierenden Sozialismus‘ ist es am Ende gescheitert, was sich im Sowjetimperium im spektakulären Zusammenbruch dieses Systems 1989–91 manifestierte. Die Erwartungen, die an das Projekt gestellt worden waren, wurden nich...
W pierwszej połowie lat siedemdziesiątych XX w. pod rządami Edwarda Gierka w Polsce wprowadzono jeden z największych programów inwestycyjnych po II wojnie światowej. W jego realizacji kluczową rolę odgrywały technologie importowane z krajów wysokorozwiniętych oraz projekty inwestycyjne finansowane z zachodnich kredytów. Rezultaty modernizacji kraju...
The paper deals with the history of Polish revisionist Marxist political economy, which flourished between 1956 and 1968, mostly in the academic institutions of Warsaw. The fate of Polish revisionism in Marxist economics is presented in parallel to the intellectual biography of Włodzimierz Brus (one of its leaders) and the fate of the Faculty of Po...
This paper presents the estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Congress Kingdom of Poland for the period 1870–1912. The authors used bottom-up methodology and calculated sectoral added values using historical economic, social, and demographic data. The presented results offer first ever insight into the structure of sectoral added val...
Die DDR und Polen haben von 1945 bis 1989 versucht, das kollektivistische Modernisierungsprojekt zu verwirklichen – den real existierenden Sozialismus. Das Buch vergleicht die unterschiedliche Entwicklung der systemtheoretischen und wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen in beiden Ländern. Trotz einer identischen Grundordnung mit Staatseigentum und Zentralpl...
Polish lands in 19th century are usually located in the economic peripheries of Europe. However there are no usable datasets of Polish GDP for this period to verify this hypothesis. The main problem is lack of reliable and comparable macroeconomic data from country divided between Russia, Austria and Prussia. The main goal of this research was to p...
The Polish state ceased to exist as a result of three partitions in 1795. Subsequently, it was revived—on a significantly diminished territory—first, by Napoleon, as the Duchy of Warsaw, and then, after the Congress of Vienna, as the Kingdom of Poland (known as Congress Poland) and the Free City of Cracow, both with relative autonomy (including the...
This chapter concerns the period of state socialism. Firstly, it deals with the rise and institutionalization of state socialism (1945–1970). The problem of dislocation of the state (lost and “regained” lands) and resettlement of people (mass forced migrations in 1940s–1950s, of both Poles and Germans) is discussed. The process of industrialization...
In this chapter, the author analyses different paths of development of fragmented Polish lands. He discusses the final collapse of the project of the state-led industrialization of Congress Poland, but focuses particularly on land reforms and their consequences. The divergence among former Polish regions continued in this period and was even streng...
The introduction presents the main argument of this book: that the backwardness of Poland is to large extent a result of historical fate, that is, dislocations and fragmentations of Polish territory as well as the discontinuity of political entities. These factors played a greater role in Polish history than any institutional, educational, or geogr...
The chapter presents the short interwar period (1921–1939). Economic history of this period is the history of re-integration (de-fragmentation) of Polish lands, re-creation of national market, and rebuilding the economy in very unfavourable geopolitical conditions. Author describes the challenges of hyperinflation (1920s), political and economic te...
The chapter will cover the longest period of absolute inexistence of Polish formal institutions and ongoing integration of Polish lands into partitioning countries. The defeat of the January Uprising in 1864 brought about the ultimate abolition of the autonomy of the Kingdom of Poland (soon, even the name was changed to Kraj Priwislenskij—the Vistu...
This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward disloca...
The article discusses the role of plants in Poland’s economic development over the last 500 years. The author presents the role of five plants in the history of Poland’s development: cereals (wheat and rye), potatoes, sugar beet and rape. The specificity of the economic development of modern Europe has made Poland one of Europe’s granaries and an i...
Przedmiotem artykułu jest rekonstrukcja historycznego produktu krajowego (PKB) ziem polskich na przełomie XIX i XX w. Jest to pierwszy w polskiej historiografii gospodarczej spójny szacunek PKB dla poszczególnych dzielnic zaborczych oraz całości ziem polskich w latach 1900 i 1910, w podwójnym ujęciu – w granicach z przełomu XIX i XX w. oraz w grani...
Economic growth of various countries in the period between 1870 and 1910 has been analysed in many quantitative studies. For the Polish territories there are two estimates of GDP per capita, which however cannot be treated as fully reliable. It should be noted that such estimates give rise to serious difficulties regarding methodology and data sour...
Between 1772 and 1795, in spite of the recently undertaken reforms, the Polish state ceased to exist as a result of three partitions. Subsequently, it was revived—on a significantly diminished territory—first by Napoleon, as the Duchy of Warsaw, and then, after the Congress of Vienna, as the Kingdom of Poland (known as Congress Poland) and the Free...
This chapter discusses the social and economic consequences of WWI and subsequent conflicts (Silesian uprisings, Polish-Soviet War, Polish-Lithuanian War, Czechoslovak-Polish border conflict) on Polish territories. Direct and indirect results of war for the economy of the Polish lands, including material damages, outflow of capital, breaking of tra...
The main topic of this chapter is the history of catching-up to the West by Poland since partition until EU accession (measured by level of economic development). The author summarizes short- and long-term economic and social consequences of partitions/fragmentation/discontinuity in the nineteenth century as well as dislocations of the Polish state...
Sixteenth century was the Golden Age of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. Then, due to inefficient institutions, resource-based economy, and continuous wars the political and economic power of Poland declined. The chapter provides concise overview of factors that contributed to a decline of the Polish state between the sixteenth and eightee...
The chapter analyses the consequences of WWII for Poland and Polish society. The author presents the history of German and Soviet occupation, the creation of the Polish Government-in-Exile and the rise of the Polish Underground State. Economic, social, and demographic consequences of war are analysed, in particular, the scheduled extermination of t...
Post-communist transformation is analysed both as a part of the story (social and economic challenges of transformation had their sources in the failed communist project of modernization) and as another (perhaps ultimate) attempt of Westernization. The successful process of catching up to the West is analysed. In particular, processes of democratiz...
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In the course of several decades the People’s Republic of Poland witnessed a number of attempts at reforming the economic system and undertaken, as a rule, upon the occasions of grave political crises and social revolts. Part of those reform programmes was created by milieus independent of the authorities or at the very least engaged in e...
The paper deals with different interpretations of roots of contemporary
Polish corruption. The authors discuss two competing theories developed by
Polish scholars. The first one links the sources of corruption with both the
culture of corruption developed in the peasant society and the inefficiency
of the political institutions of the Polish-Lithua...
In this article, Korys seeks to highlight the fundamental ideas in the polemics around serfdom in the Polish intellectual tradition, with a view to contemporary discussions of the same. He notes that neither feudal land tenure [pańszczyzna] nor dependence on serf labor have been preserved in society's historical memory, although memory of the pover...
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Occupational structure of the Polish lands at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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The authors present a new picture of the occupational structure of the Polish lands at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The article is based on the population censuses, carried out in Russia in 1897 and in Austria...
This chapter is about the level of tolerance of dual citizenship and its determinants in Poland, an emigration country. We argue that, even though dual citizenship does exist in Poland, we cannot state with certainty that it is generally accepted. Tolerance applies to selected groups not including, in fact, immigrants. Formally, this tolerance is e...
Artykuł przedstawia poglądy Karla Polanyiego na tle myśli pierwszej połowy XX wieku. Zrekonstruowane w nim zostały główne tezy Wielkiej transformacji dotyczące formowania się dziewiętnastowiecznego kapitalizmu, który niszczył dawne struktury, i nowoczesnego społeczeństwa, które zapoznało jego rolę.
The paper deals with the interpretation of the concept of conflict of interest by politicians and top state officials in Poland. It proposes a definition of the term "conflict of interest" and describes the history of related Polish legislation. Then it presents the famous 2002 case of a politically connected film producer trying to secure a bribe...
The authors present theories of corruption taking into consideration the typology of Arnold J. Heidenheimer, who divided the corruption theories into those which concentrate on the public official and concern the breaking of the rules of the law and those according to which corruption is a particular kind of market phenomenon. In the first part of...
