The article addresses a problem of the extent to which manifest functions are fulfilled by Polish insolvency system. The questions it aims to answer are: What are the official goals of Polish insolvency system? What is the level of realization of these goals? How the indicators of their realization look like in comparison with other European economies? Is Polish insolvency system dysfunctional or eufunctional for Polish economy and society? Following data will be analysed: results of international surveys on insolvency regimes in Poland and all over the world, data issued by public control institutions and partial results of authors own research. Neoinstitutional perspective is engaged to analyse the data and the article accepts the perspective of economic sociology of law. The article aims to bring more attention to a social institution of crucial significance in a free-market economy and to a need of closer sociological insight into its problems.