Institute of Economics

When writing about the current Institute of Economics tradition, one should also mention the period even earlier, i.e. before 1990, when the then Academy of Economics had institutes within the faculties. The Institute of Economics, due to its scientific and didactic profile, refers directly to the tradition of the Institute of Economic Theory and its director and, at the same time, a leading figure of the Poznan School of Economics – Professor Wacław Wilczyński, as well as to the tradition of the Institute of Planning headed for many years by Professor Seweryn Kruszczyński, in 1954-1956 the rector of the then Higher School of Economics. The staff of the Institute of Economics consists of more than forty academic teachers, of which more than half are professors or university professors. In the scientific sphere, the Institute’s staff conduct research in many areas of macro- and microeconomic analysis and economic policy in both the sectoral and spatial dimensions. Research results are published in monographs and on the pages of leading Polish journals and significant foreign journals. In the didactic sphere, the Institute’s staff teach core subjects in the curricula of all majors, particularly Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, as well as many subjects of a more specialised or profiled nature, especially in the Economics major.