Institutions & Survival

Pedagogical University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland

20-21 February 2020

WINIR sponsored the Second Conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought on “Institutions and Survival: Social Order for the 21st Century” that was held at the Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland, on 20-21 February 2020.

The conference provided a platform for discussion about economic, legal and philosophical challenges and threats concerning the design and implementation of institutional solutions aimed at achieving better life standards in the 21st century. The conference languages were English and Polish.

Keynote lectures:

Laszlo Csaba (Central European University & Corvinus University of Budapest)
Geoffrey Hodgson (Loughborough University London)
Claus Thomasberger (University of Applied Sciences in Berlin)

The conference also featured two panel discussions on “Socio-Economic Reasons for Democracy in Retreat” and “Hybrid Institutional Arrangements of Governance: Networks and Beyond” with the following panellists: Wojciech Czakon (Jagiellonian University), Marcin Gorazda (Copernicus Center for Interdisiciplinary Research), Janusz Grygieńć (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Dominika Milczarek-Andrzejewska (Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Andrzej Szahaj (Nicolaus Copernicus University) and Jerzy Wilkin (Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Science).

Selected papers were considered for publications in: (a) an edited collection by Cambridge Scholars Publishing; (b) the journal Optimum: Economic Studies; and (c) the journal Annales: Ethics in Economic Life. The conference proceedings were submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Social Science & Humanities (Web of Science), and Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (Springer).

Scientific committee: Anna Ząbkowicz (Chair, Jagiellonian University, economics), Wojciech Giza (Kraków University of Economics, philosophy), Michał Pietrzak (Warsaw University of Life Sciences, economics).

Organizing Committee: Michał Moszyński (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz (Jagiellonian University), Sławomir Czech (University of Economics, Katowice), Anna Jurczuk (University of Bialystok), Maciej Kassner (Nicolaus Copernicus University), Judyta Lubacha-Sember (Jagiellonian University), Zofia Łapniewska (Jagiellonian University), Renata Śliwa (Pedagogical University of Kraków).

Further information about this event please can be found here.