Aspekty etyczne polskiej transformacji gospodarczej w enuncjacjach Konferencji Episkopatu Polski / Moral and Ethical Aspects of the Polish Transition from Communism in the Enunciations of the Polish Episcopate

Marek Delong ()
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Marek Delong: Univesity of Rzeszow, Poland

Annales. Ethics in Economic Life, 2017, vol. 20, issue 2, 103-116

Abstract: The Polish Episcopate critically assessed the social and economic situation in Poland in the period of the transition from communism to democracy and freemarket economy. Privatizations led to production being stopped and an increase in unemployment. Profit became the measure of labor, not human dignity. The economic and social reality was dominated by the treatment of economics and financial success as the highest values, and the dissemination of the opinion that in politics and economics there are no values. The political elites showed an inability to develop long-term strategies for getting out of the crisis. The disappearance of the morality of many representatives of public life, which manifested itself in universal corruption and the aspiration to improve their social status as soon as possible, contributed to this state of affairs. As a result, there was a crisis of the idea of the common wealth and an increase in crime. The social crisis was particularly visible in moral attitudes, social behaviour, and in the economic sphere, public finance, on the labour market, and in the quickly progressing social stratification.

Keywords: Polish Episcopate; ethics; economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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