Mechanizm cyklu koniunkturalnego a „nakręcanie” koniunktury gospodarczej. Doświadczenia lat trzydziestych w XX wieku

The article analyzes the mechanism of „giving impetus” to economy that was used in the 1930s (the period of the Great Depression). The mechanism was worked out on the level of the theory of economy at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s and in a sense was an alternative and a complement for J. M. Keynes’ theory. Representatives of the Austrian School played a significant part in working out this conception. In „giving impetus” to economy a great significance was attached not only to public spending financed by the budget deficit, but also to properly carried out monetary policy. In Poland elements of this conception were used in 1936-1939, when „giving impetus” was closely connected with E. Kwiatkowski, the then Minister of State Treasury, and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economy, and with the major economic project carried out in that time, that is the Central Industrial Region.