How did insurance education become an integral part of the academic landscape at SGH Warsaw School of Economics? What intellectual currents and institutional decisions shaped its development over more than a century? And what does this legacy tell us about the broader relationship between knowledge, economics, and uncertainty?
These questions are addressed in our recently published monograph, A Brief History of Insurance Education at the Warsaw School of Economics.
This book tells the story of how insurance education evolved at SGH – from its early foundations in the interwar period, through its reorganisation during the post-war era, to its current institutional form. Drawing on archival sources, faculty records, curricula, and personal recollections, the authors reconstruct the shifting place of insurance within the broader economic and educational agenda of Poland’s leading economics university.
The narrative pays particular attention to the intellectual traditions that shaped the teaching and research of insurance: from early influences of actuarial science and public finance, through the legal-economic models of the socialist era, to the re-emergence of microeconomic, managerial, and international perspectives after 1989.
By situating insurance education within its historical, institutional, and disciplinary context, the book offers not only a retrospective account, but also a reflection on the enduring relevance of insurance as a field of academic inquiry and social importance.
Keywords:
Insurance education, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Insurance science, Actuarial studies, Insurance research
Credits
| Authors | Śliwiński Adam, Kuryłowicz, Łukasz (eds.) |
| SGH Warsaw School of Economics | |
| Date | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-130 |
| Type | Book |
| Publisher | SGH Printing House |
| DOI | |
| ISBN | 978-83-8030-727-8 |
| How to cite | Sliwinski A., Kurylowicz L. (eds.). A Brief History of Insurance Education at the Warsaw School of Economics. Warszawa: SGH Printing House, 2025. |