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Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Professor Oscar Sheynin

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2015
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issue 13 (19)
209-220
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Professor Sheynin was born on November 29, 1925, in Moscow. In 1932−1942 he attended the high school, typical “ten-year” high Soviet school. In 1951 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Geodesy. He also worked as a geodesist in the field, and taught geodesy at a geodetic technical college, was subeditor of the journal of abstracts, Astronomy and Geodesy, and a teacher of mathematics in a school. For six years he worked as a lecturer at the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy, in Moscow. In 1959 he graduated from Moscow State University, the Faculty of Mechanics. where he defended a dissertation about the error theory. In May 1991 O. Sheynin moved with his family (wife and the son) to Germany (Cologne, then to Berlin). Now he lives in Berlin. He has been a German citizen since 2005.
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Professor Zdzisław Henryk Hellwig (26.05.1925–8.11.2013)

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2015
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issue 13 (19)
177-181
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Professor Doctor habilitatus h.c.h.c. Z.H. Hellwig was born on 26 May 1925 in the small town of Dokszyce, not far from Wilno. Both of his parents were teachers. His father, Henry Hellwig, taught German and his mother taught Mathematics. Prof. Z. Hellwig was educated at King Zygmunt August Gimnazjum in Wilno. However his secondary school graduation certificate (’matura’ in Polish) he only obtained after the Second World War in Wrocław, in 1947. In the same year he enrolledin the Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomiczna (University of Economics) in Wrocław, from which he graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor’s Degree.
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Metabometria

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2016
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issue 14 (20)
145-184
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The last decades have witnessed tremendous advances in technology. Accelerating rate of technological change has brought about not only humans daily life, but also extraordinary climate change. Almost one-half of the land surface has been transformed by human action, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere exceeded permissible level, biological diversity is dramatically reduced. This human dominance means that the humanity is responsible for all the havoc wreaked on the earth , atmosphere, stratosphere, and humanity itself. We observed tremendous irreversible havocs and damages wreaked on the planet, and on humanity. The whole planet has endured so big changes that scientists agree to name the current period of the planet’s existence as Anthropocene. E. Fromm alerted a time ago that for the first time in the history the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change of human heart. It was allegedly A. Einstein, who observed that we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. It is not difficult to discover what kind of thinking brought humanity on the edge of a precipice. Paradoxically, it is thinking of the highly glorified, the so-called modern science. It was irresponsible transfer of Newtonian and Cartesian thinking from natural sciences into social sciences. As it is well known, the so-called modern science is based on a mechanistic worldview. However, neither ecosystem, nor society is a mega-machine, for which one has a spare parts. People are not equal self-loving atoms separated one from another. Particularly, it is economism, world-wide religion with its basic dogma of consumerism that is responsible for any kind of society’s desertification and biosphere destroying. Market is not an instrument for reaching equality and freedom, ruled by a providential Invisible Hand, but it is a place where mighty exploit the weak (L. Bruni). Human being is a social being, and outside the society can be either beast or god. People are living social atoms, with a Trinitarian nature constituting basic elements of social cells, i.e. family units, which in their turn constitute building material for social tissue. Society is therefore a living organism, having its proper organs. Lotka considered it as the “one huge multiple Siamese twin”. Economy is to be conceptualized as one of various of its exosomatic organs, designated by society and controlled by society. Like biological systems, social systems depend also on continuous throughput of energy and materials in order to maintain their structure and “life”. The concept of metabolism seems to be the unifying concept for any living organism, biological and socio-economical. This paper presents an introduction into economics, or as some prefer, oikonomics, as a science of economy considered as a society’s organ. Society, as a living organism, takes up ( through its organs) resources from the environment, transforms them into useful product and consumes, and excretes needles products of social metabolism again into environment. It is worthy to observe the drastic difference between mainstream economics and economics as a life science. The traditional, mainstreaming approach is based on the principle of using monetary units as the common denominator of all that is important in human life, such an approach was termed by B. Gross as a new philistinism. The alternative approach is based on the metabolic profiles, which are characterized by their material and energy flows. Instead of monetary measurement units, for the description of all society-nature relations there are used physical units. Although the development of a new approach is underway, there are already obtained significant results in measuring the human use of nature, as well as creating material and energy flow accountings.
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STATISTICS AS A SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE (Statystyka zrodlem wiedzy (Referat wygloszony na zjezdzie wroclawskiego oddzialu PTS))

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2010
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issue 8(14)
81-106
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This paper addresses the problem of social roots of statistics, and particularly it highlights its role in transforming data into knowledge. Statistics is the only tool enabling effective move from the welfare state to the welfare society. Following the Gurria's call for a new generation of statistics, the main ways for the development of this new statistics are also discussed. The problem how to meet new social needs rising in information societies or societies based on knowledge is also briefly discussed.
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O trwałym rozwoju

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2015
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issue 13 (19)
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This paper is based on my Three Conference lectures about the essence of sustainable development, and the critical remarks about Polish literature devoted to this subject. In all publications examined by me authors made references to the Brundtland Report, and quoted definitions of sustainability, but they ignored the fact that this Report has been translated into Polish, and definitions are quite different. Without knowing the basic literature, and on the basis of merely their own intuition many authors gave interpre-tations which might be classified as fantasy. This is caused probably by the fact that the English adjective sustainable has been incorrectly translated as which means balanced.
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The emergence of statistical science

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2014
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issue 12(18)
75-82
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In this short note the origin of the word “statistics” is explained. Girolamo Ghilini was the first who used that word in 1663. G. Achenwall coined the artificial word “Statistik”, not existing in German language, and used it to name the science about states. Scotsman J. Sinclair stolen this word from German and introduced into English. K. Pearson, expressing the gratitude for Sinclair, said that we had to bless this robbery.
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Refleksje o pisarstwie statystycznym

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2014
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issue 12(18)
349-352
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Pierwsze prace nazywane dzisiaj statystycznymi dotyczyły zbiorowości ludzkich nazywanych z łacińska populacjami. Samą naukę o charakterze ilościowym początkowo nazwano demologią, później demografią, od greckiego słowa demos oznaczającego lud. Demografia jest więc nauką dostojną nie tylko ze względu na swe metody i zastosowania, ale jej dostojeństwo potwierdzają i wiek, i to, że dotyczy ona rzeczy najcenniejszej, a mianowicie życia człowieka
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Americanism as a global idolatry of market and its impact on universities

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2020
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issue 18 (24)
43-98
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The main aim of this paper are critical reflections about the subservience of the academic elite (and ordinary scholars) to corporations, which is manifested by performing research and publishing papers, and fosters predatory politics of corporations. It is high time to wake up and open our eyes, and see that the so-called corporate social responsibility is in fact a social irresponsibility, that viatical insurance is a cynical mode for profiting from terminally ill persons, that customers are human beings who have dignity rather than monetary value and they cannot be packaged into portfolios. Everything relating to the stock exchange (interest rate, bonds, investments, instruments ) is a kind of pure speculation, and has nothing to do with the very production needed to ensure our livelihood, instead it serves to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The primary aim of this paper is first of all to point to the existing extensive non-mainstream literature revealing the causes of this evil.
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W artykule dokonano przede wszystkim krytyki podporządkowywania uniwersytetów ideologii wolnorynkowej i traktowania ich jako przedsiębiorstw produkujących nie tylko tak zwaną siłę roboczą, ale i wiedzę na podstawie biznesplanów wzorowanych na praktykach przedsiębiorstw produkcyjnych. Podporządkowywane takie dokonywane jest przez władze każdego szczebla i – niestety, – wspierane przez kadrę akademicką poprzez publikacje idealizujące idolizację niby-wolnego rynku. Poza tym skrytykowano dość powszechną praktykę samopoddaństwa kadry akademickiej hegemonowi korporacyjnemu polegającą na prowadzeniu badań wspomagających i promujących działalność korporacji, których głównym celem jest dążenie do zysku, tak zwana zaś odpowiedzialność społeczna jest tylko zasłoną. Niezależnie od tego skrytykowana została nieszkodliwa społecznie praktyka „wciskania kitu”. Oprócz krytyki przedstawione są też argumenty za przyłączeniem się do nurtów nowego myślenia o świecie i o gospodarowaniu. Tak jak ongiś rozwinęło się Oświecenie, które w centrum uwagi umieściło rozum, a zostało przyćmione obecnym oczarowaniem rynkiem, tak teraz nastaje czas na odczarowanie w postaci ożywienia stawiającego w centrum uwagi życie. W związku z tym w załączniku zamieszczona jest imitacja wskazówek, jakie Benjamin Franklin dał młodemu handlowcowi, w której słynne ‘czas to pieniądz’ zamienione jest na ‘czas to życie’ i poparte zostało odpowiednimi wskazówkami na wzór wskazówek Franklina.
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Ecosocionomics as a Sustainability Science

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Ostasiewicz K., Ostasiewicz W.
Optimum. Studia Ekonomiczne
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2017
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vol. 1(85)
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This paper addresses a general vision of the science of equity and sustainability, which could be called ecosocionomics. The conflict between economies, ecosystems, and social justice could be reconciled on a consensual platform constructed on the scientific basis. Concurring with Wilson’s reasoning, it is argued in this paper that a proposed new platform of knowledge should confirm all the indisputable facts of all branches of science. We definitely reject any form of a win-win, or even win-win- win hypotheses. The three goals: economic efficiency, ecosystem protection, and social fairness are not compatible, they stand rather in opposition one to another. As far as human race occupies and reshapes the only World, there is no choice but to sit down and jointly solve our common problems. Mother Earth feeds humans generously, but only to certain limits of her carrying capacity , which cannot be exceeded. This paper represents a step in the ongoing process of looking for a way how to live within the natural limits, and the limits that were created by humans.
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Reshaping economics to encompass quality of life issues

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Ostasiewicz K., Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2015
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issue 13 (19)
137-159
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In this paper we have given a short account of the shortfalls of neoclassical economics, far removed from Aristotelian political economics, which was considered by him as the art of household management. The objective of it was a flourishing life or the Good Life. The main aim of humankind is the development of a desirable way of living and sustaining the quality of life, also for future generations. In order to achieve that goal, people created a number of institutions to facilitate achieving that end. All institutions, as they are devised for human purposes, cannot be outside human control, they should serve society. In the paper it is argued that the economy, as one of the social institutions, should play a particular role in enhancing human and non-human well-being. The paper contains the proposal of a unified system of measuring institutional and eco-system performance. Moreover, it is argued that among many proposals for the development of new proposals for studying economic matters, ecological economics is the most suitable for researching into the quality of life.
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Profesor Zdzisław Hellwig 1925 – 2013

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Rusnak Z., Ostasiewicz W.
Przegląd Statystyczny
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2013
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vol. 60
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issue 4
539-545
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Profesor Ryszard Antoniewicz (19.08.1939 – 20.02.2015)

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2016
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issue 14 (20)
243-250
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Nobel, Non Nobel, Ig Nobel, and Alternative Nobel Prizes

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Ostasiewicz W.
Śląski Przegląd Statystyczny
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2016
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issue 14 (20)
251-254
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