ACTIVITIES OF THE POLISH ECONOMIC SOCIETY IN LVIV IN 1921-1939

Abstract

The article “The Activities of the Polish Economic Society in Lviv in 1921-1939” discusses the prerequisites for the creation and operation of one of the first institutions of this kind in interwar Poland. Its main goal is the development of economic knowledge and its popularization, and support for the specific economic policy of state institutions. After the restoration of independence in 1918, Polish economists began to look for organizational forms of activity that would contribute to the reconstruction of the state. On February 27, 1921, the Polish Economic Society was established in Lviv. The Society’s charter provided for participation in the preparation of Polish economic legislation, the development of economic science and education, and the popularization of economic knowledge. Researchers associate the flourishing of the Polish Economic Society in Lviv with the activities of Professor Leopold Karo of the Lviv Polytechnic, who established the Society’s financing, restored the periodicity of discussion meetings, and began publishing a journal and a series of scientific monographs. The scientist was inclined to statism, believed that Polish production needed constant state intervention. The Society founded its own library, which in 1938 numbered 3,118 volumes. In 1928, the ninth year of its foundation, the Polish Economic Society began publishing a magazine, in the columns of which the Society's economic studies and reports were published. Leopold Caro, Alfred Haluszka, Henryk Korowicz, Edwin Hauswald, Jan Peigert, Adam Roza, Karol Trawiński, Henryk Hurski, Władysław Yenner, Stanisław Shatzel, Roman Lonschat de Berrier, Adam Rose, Ludwik Kruszelnicki, Kostyantyn Zebrowski, Edward Lipinski, Leon Bigelaisen, Jan Arnicki, Jan Bzozowski, Marian Cieglinski, Henryk Groszman, Franciszek Tomanek and other scientists were published here.