Ewolucja ekonomii a nowy pragmatyzm Grzegorza W. Kołodki
Evolution of Economics and the New Pragmatism of Grzegorz W. Kołodko

Summary/Abstract: The paper refers to the article recently published in this journal by Grzegorz W. Kołodko (“Ekonomista”, 2014, no. 3) and the polemics written by Andrzej Matysiak (“Ekonomista”, 2015, no. 2). The author argues that the polemicist did not fully considered the most interesting and valuable elements of Kołodko’s contribution, e.i. a new innovative look at economics and its contemporary aims. The paper is composed of three parts. The first, methodological part includes a discussion of the ultimate aims of economic sciences with the consideration of special features of its subject (economy): its variability, variety, and teleological character. The author rejects the traditional division between positive and normative economics. He introduces the concept of a ‘good economy’ (good economic system), which is then analysed in part two in the framework of the development of economic thought from Smith and Ricardo, through Marx and Keynes, up to the modern welfare economics. The third part is devoted to the analysis of the key elements of the concept of, new pragmatism, proposed by G.W. Kołodko. The author focuses on Kołodko’s views on the contents and aims of contemporary economics and its understanding of the category of a ‘good economy’. He concludes that the concept of ‘new pragmatism’, which is remote from the main-stream contemporary economics, tries to meet the present needs of the changing world while being well settled in the cognitive current of economics dating back to its Smithsonian origins.

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