Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 1985, nr 2

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Ekonomia społeczna Józefa Supińskiego
(Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM, 1985) Leońska, Lidia
The social economy of Józef Supiński caused many controversies at its time. Many authors claimed that it is not an economic concept but a sociological theory. J. Supiński himselft indicated at the social character of his economic views. One can adopt that principles of his social economy are nothing else but another name of sociology in its typical form of the 19 c. naturalism (J. Supiński is considered to be a father of Polish sociology). Cardinal theses of his concept of social economy are laid down in the work Polish school of social economy which was philosophically underpinned by The general thought of universal phisiology. The sources of theoretical views of J. Supiński have to be searched in the positivism of A. Comte and in the 19 c. naturalism. His social economy on the other hand is one of the versions of Western-European liberal doctrine, particularly of Bathbie, Rossi and Say. J. Supiński can be credited for noticing the necessity to create a general, progressive and typically Polish program of the economic development of his economically backward country (in comparison to other ones, esp. Western-European)