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František Vencovský one of the most prominent Czech economists of the second half of the 20th century died five years ago. He has been valued for his very significant contribution to the historical development of the Czech economic theory, to the historical development of banking, monetary...

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On the 8th February 2013 the Czech Koruna celebrated 20 years of its existence. The article would like to remember this anniversary. In the first part the circumstances of the birth of the Czechoslovak Koruna in April 1919 are analyzed. The second part deals with the break-up of the Czechoslovak...

Karel Engliš (1880 – 1961) one of the most prominent Czech economists, politicians and statesmen of the period between the two world wars died fifty years ago on the 30th of June 1961. He is valued for his contribution to the development of the economic theory as well as for his very...

On the 22nd of May, 2009 professor Milan Sojka, the external co-operator of the Department of Monetary Theory and Policy, died. He had been the head of the Department of the Institutional Economics at the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University...

On the 5th of July, 2006 professor Frantisek Vencovský, the member of the Department of Monetary Theory and Policy, died. He was one of the most significant contemporary theoreticians and historians in the field of the monetary theory and policy. Prof. Vencovský became a well known specialist...

Milton Friedman, American Nobel price winner for Economics, was one of the most important economists in the 20th century. He contributed to the development of macroeconomic theory as well as to the new concept of monetary policy. In the area of economic theory two of main Friedman´s...

The article deals with the question in which extent the students of the University of Economics Prague (UEP) could get knowledge about the development of the economic theory. In the time, when it was impossible to buy any of foreign economist (with exception of Marxian authors form the socialist...