From which academic traditions do Polish economists hail? This article takes a first step towards answering that question by applying academic genealogy (succession) analysis, not previously used in research on Polish economists, to the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It reconstructs supervisor–doctoral student relationships for all those who earned their doctorate at the Faculty between 1988 and 2025. A bottom-up method combines faculty records, the “Nauka Polska” and “Ludzie Nauki” databases, and archival and biographical research. The material is examined through network analysis using topological measures. Succession runs along 18 main lines, but six of them account for over 80% of the studied population. Network measures rank the key figures in the mentoring structure and show how differently individual progenitors shaped the training of academic staff. The study documents the formation of the Toruń economic centre and its links with other centres in Poland and abroad, and the procedure can be applied to further centres.