PLANOWANIE GOSPODARCZE W POLSCE LUDOWEJ. OD SPEKTAKULARNEGO SUKCESU DO KLĘSKI
ECONOMIC PLANNING IN THE PEOPLE'S POLAND. FROM A SPECTACULAR SUCCESS TO A DISASTER

Summary/Abstract: The article indicates the limited role of economic planning in influencing the dynamics and proper economic proportions, and, above all, the social well-being in Poland in the years 1945-1989. The author argues that economic planning was subject to numerous changes, which ranged from indicative planning to directive planning. The changes were determined by political factors, and, above all, by the constantly persisting economic and social tensions. Planning only fully implemented the priority of the economic and social goals during the post-war reconstruction. In the 1970s and 1980s, it contributed to the deepening of the economic chaos and to the defeat of the communist rule in Poland. The article is a contribution to the still lively, often fueled by contradictory arguments, discussion on the fall of the Polish People's Republic.

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