Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 57 n. 231, December 2004, pp. 395-437.

The work is an obituary of Tadeusz Kowalik, the doyen of Polish political economists, who died in Warsaw on July 30th, 2012. In the English-speaking world Kowalik is best known as the last surviving collaborator of Micha? Kalecki, an advisor to the Polish trade union Solidarity during the 1980s,...