Dr Bębnowski participated in a scientific conference co-organised by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA) and Columbia University in June. During the session, he delivered a paper in which he presented the preliminary results of his research on the aforementioned issue. After World War II, communist ideology encompassed all areas of life in Poland, including science. Historical materialism became the binding interpretation, among other things, for historical and economic sciences. Objective discussion on economic issues was limited in the country due to the Marxist utopia. An alternative approach was represented by Polish emigre science, including the community in the USA. Researchers who also dealt with economic history worked here. The lecture presented the directions of development of economic history in the country and in emigration, including in the USA. Dr Damian Bębnowski presented more important threads in the intellectual biographies of Polish authors "beyond the great water". Finally, he presented interesting topics, methods and original assessments, which Polish scientists could afford only after 1989. It turns out that Polish researchers in the USA actively co-created the Anglo-Saxon theory of economy.
An extended version of the presentation also took the form of a lecture delivered in May by Dr Bębnowski for the Polish diaspora, at the invitation of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in New York.
