Post-industralism and the challenges to economic theory. From the Polish experience. An essay

Ignacy H. Chrzanowski

Maritime University, Szczecin,Poland; the Szczecin School of European Integration

E-mail: hranow54@yahoo.com

Accepted 31 May 2012

Abstract

The transformation process of the national economies of the former Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe that started in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has created new challenges for the educational system of economics departments of universities and other academic institutions. New programmes were introduced, sometimes hastily, and economics teachers had to re-orientate their educational methodology. This paper is looking at some challenges that arose in the course of these reforms.

Keywords: Economics, socialist states, challenges, post-industrialism, new institutional economics