Etyczne i ekonomiczne uwarunkowania wielkości produkcji społecznej w ujęciu Stanisława Głąbińskiego
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Stanisław Głąbiński (1862–1941), economist and politician, and one of the main
representatives of the historical trend, sought to develop the national school in the
Polish economy. The nation and national idea were to become its starting point. By
‘people’ he meant the population in the political sense, i.e. the whole of society within
the state, including the factions and national minorities.
The subject of national economics is the national or social economy. It is the total
unit of a higher order, including all the households in the country linked by ties of mutual
dependence, both material and spiritual. Its purpose and subject is the society, the
nation. Therefore, national economics is a social science. Production is characterized
by a social dimension, its size determined by both economic and non-economic factors
as well as moral and ethical ones. These two aspects are characteristic of the two categories
associated with it, i.e. the social resources and factors of production.
The category of social resources is similar to Frederick List’s concept of productive
forces, meaning the production capacity of the nation, the power of producing
wealth. Głąbiński divides them into moral and material resources, attaching more
importance to the moral resources. They are the fullest expression of the nation’s
culture condition, the nation’s moral level and they also provide stable social bonds.
The concept of moral resources involves two production factors: entrepreneurship
as well as knowledge and work. The material resources represent the earth
(nature) and capital.
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