The Polish Economic Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Ekonomiczne, PTE) and the social economic movement have over 200 years of tradition, the roots of which date back to the Renaissance period in the 16th – century Europe. Today in the 21st century when we get back to thinking about the future in terms of common, European benefits, historical reflection acquires additional social significance. Against this background, PTE is preparing for another attempt to describe the history and create the future of the social labour movement of Polish economists.
In the past historical work we assumed that there were three historical sources for the mainstream of the social labour movement of the Polish economists:
- The first, scientific one, referring to the economic work of M. Kopernik and the reform of the monetary system of 1515-1517 and relationships between theory and practice of managing and the need for social economic education in Poland.
- The second, economic one, referring to new forms of organized professional and business activity, reference to which became the movement of entrepreneurs and buyers, coming into existence at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, associated among others in the Międzyrzeckie Society [Towarzystwo Międzyrzeckie], established in 1802.
- The third, congressional one, referring to the first congress of the Polish economists from three sectors of partitioned Poland in 1887, on the basis of which the 5th Congress of the Polish Economists – Kraków 1987 was organized on the centenary of the social economic movement and PTE.
The need to act for public benefits and professional development determine the mainstream of the social labour movement of economists. With the “system” approach we can assume that the mechanism of the functioning and development of the social movement understood in this way came into existence at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the establishing of the Międzyrzeckie Society in 1802 became reference to organizing the social economic movement in PTE.
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