90 Years of Gospodarka Narodowa

The aim of this article is to outline the history of the scientific journal Gospodarka Narodowa, which from 1946 to 1989 operated under the name Gospodarka Planowa. The study pays particular attention to the subject matter of the articles published in the journal, the organisation of editorial work and the people associated with the journal. For this purpose, sources and existing studies were consulted, and an analysis was conducted of the citations of the papers published in the journal. When possible, the frequency of the use of selected JEL classification codes in the papers was also analysed. The article not only offers the first in-depth description of the nine decades of Gospodarka Narodowa, but also makes an original contribution to the discipline by indicating the most frequently cited articles published in the journal. It finds that the main areas of interest for Gospodarka Narodowa authors over the past decade have been issues related to macroeconomics, including monetary economics, international economics, financial economics, and economic growth. Another finding is that many authors have shown a preference for a clearly quantitative approach to the study of these problems. The article concludes by stating that Gospodarka Narodowa underwent a long evolution before it eventually became a strictly scientific journal, a focus that it has preserved to this day.