The Appeal of British Sociology; a View from Outside and Inside

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The price stability oriented monetary policy of the European Central Bank

The aim of this paper is to present the price stability oriented monetary policy of the European Central Bank. The European Central Bank began activities in 1998 and the primary objective of the European System of Central Banks is to maintain price stability and the ESCB should also support the general economic policies in the Community. Monetary policy is a special tool that national governments and central banks uses to influence on its economy, especially to control the supply of money and to influence on the level of economic indicators. This paper investigates the assumed objective of the European System of Central Banks which is to maintain price stability. What is more, we would like to present the monetary policy strategy of the European Central Bank and analysis of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices.Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie polityki pieniężnej EBC w kontekście stabilizacji cen. EBC rozpoczął swoją działalność w roku 1998 i od tego czasu wraz z Europejskim Systemem Banków Centralnych odgrywa istotną rolę w prowadzeniu polityki pieniężnej Unii Europejskiej. Polityka ta jest specjalnym narzędziem stosowaną przez bank centralny oraz rządy narodowe w celu oddziaływania na gospodarkę. Jednym z działań jest oczywiście wpływ na podaż pieniądza i innych istotnych wskaźników. W niniejszym artykule autorzy starają się dokonać analizy polityki pieniężnej prowadzonej przez EBC ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem HICP

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE EVOLUTION OF EMPIRICISM

[The text examines methodological consequences of anti-metaphysical turn of British empiricism in the field of anthropology. I argue that this shift reinforces anthropology in its descriptive and interdisciplinary form, because destruction of metaphysically grounded subjectivity carried out in the course of evolution of empiricism provides epistemological legitimization of the idea of anthropological research as morally neutral and religiously indifferent procedure. In the final part of the article the difficulties caused by application of this new methodology are emphasized.

International Competitiveness of Polish Economy in Years 1995-2005

The aim of article is the analysis of international competitiveness and competitive position of Polish economy in the years 1995-2005. The first, were defined expressions -international competitiveness of economy and -international competitive position with simultaneous indication of suitable factors determining the changes of international competitiveness of economy. On the basis of conducted analysis, one may say, that the international competitiveness and competitive position of Polish economy is relatively low yet. However, in the years 1995-2005 appeared the gradual growth of competitiveness and competitive position of Poland on international arena, what confirms favourable changes of analyzed competitiveness indexes. The possibilities of increasing international competitiveness of Polish economy depend on that, whether Poland will fully use existing chances resulting mainly from the membership in European Union. Moreover, the improvement of international competitiveness of Polish economy depend on overcoming of existing barriers, such as the necessity of public finance reforms, continuation of structural reforms, enlargement of investments, increasing the elasticity of the labour market and the gradual aiming at knowledge based economy.quality of educational services; ROMPEDET method; intangible assets indicators

Ill Fare the Humanities

The starting point of our considerations is the two books published in 2010: “Ill Fares the Land” by the late Tony Judt and “Not for Profit” by Martha Nussbaum. The authors of both books share the conviction that neoliberal changes in the world of global capitalism radically impoverish culture and their consequences may be dramatic and irreversible. In our paper we would like to emphasize the dangers to solidarity and social cohesion posed by neoliberal postulates. We also claim that promoting the neoliberal ideology in the context of higher education and institutions of civic society endangers the very democracy understood as reasonable pluralism (in John Rawls’ terminology), consisting in rationality, plurality of opinions, lifestyles and conceptions of good, as well as consensus as the aim of social and political practices

Anwendung von Delta-Dirac-Funktion und Heviside-Funktion zur Berechnung der inneren Kräfte und Verschiebungen in gebogenen Balken

Die d - Dirac - Funktion d(x-xi) und Heviside - Funktion wurden vor allem zur Beschreibung diskontinuierlicher Belastungsfunktionen von gebogenen Balken angewendet. Im Referat werden die mathematischen Operationen auf den erwähnten Funktionen dargestellt. Darüber hinaus wird die Möglichkeit eindeutiger Aufschreibung von belibigen Belestungsfunktionen vorgeschlagen, die fast alle Fälle der in der Ingenieurpraxis auftretenden Belastungen umfassen. Die vorgeschlagenen Lösungen geben die Möglichkeit leichter Aufschreibung im Form eines Algorithmus, das die Ausnutzung von Komputertechnik in statischen Berechnungen ermöglicht. Am Ende des Referates werden die Zahlebeispiele dargestellt, die die Möglichkeiten praktischer Anwendungen der besprochenen Funktionen darstellen

The relationship between savings and economic growth in countries with different level of economic development

The aim of this paper is to analyze the cause and effect relationship between economic growth and savings in advanced economies and in emerging and developing countries2. In this work we used the method based on studies in macroeconomics and international finance as well as econometric methods (co-integration models and Granger's causality test). All statistical data used in this paper came from the International Monetary Fund database (World Economic Outlook database). The results confirmed the existence of one-way casual relationship between gross domestic savings and gross domestic product in the case of developed countries as well as in developing and transition countries. At the same time it was revealed the absence of causal relationship between gross domestic product and gross domestic savings both in developed economies and developing and transition countries

(Nie)zależność finansowa państwa we współczesnej gospodarce rynkowej

State financial independence refers to the ability of the government to finance all state expenditure solely from the budgetary revenue attained. Thus, the full financial autonomy of the state means that the government finances the budgetary expenditures without having to borrow money. Therefore, the aim of this article is to examine the possibility for states to achieve full financial autonomy in the contemporary world economy. The results of the studies show that almost all countries now have a large or small public debt, which means that countries finance their development by borrowing money at home and abroad. The important issue seems to be not so much to maintain the full financial independence of the State as to guarantee the financial security of the state (that is, to maintain the ability of the state to raise money when necessary).Niezależność finansowa państwa odnosi się do możliwości finansowania przez rząd wszystkich wydatków państwowych wyłącznie z osiąganych dochodów budżetowych. Zatem pełna autonomia finansowa państwa oznacza, że rząd finansuje wydatki budżetowe bez konieczności pożyczania środków przez zaciąganie kredytów bankowych czy emisję instrumentów dłużnych. Dlatego też celem niniejszego artykułu jest zbadanie możliwości osiągnięcia przez państwo pełnej autonomii finansowej we współczesnej gospodarce światowej. Wyniki przeprowadzonych badań wskazują, że obecnie prawie we wszystkich krajach występuje większy lub mniejszy dług publiczny, co oznacza, że państwa finansują swój rozwój, pożyczając środki w kraju i za granicą. Istotną kwestią wydaje się nie tyle utrzymanie pełnej niezależności finansowej państwa, ile zagwarantowanie bezpieczeństwa finansowego państwa, czyli utrzymanie zdolności do pozyskania przez państwo środków pieniężnych w sytuacji, gdy zachodzi taka potrzeba.