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Planificarea economică sub monarhia autoritară din România
The economic planning under authoritarian monarchy of Romania

Author(s): Florin Grecu
Subject(s): Labor relations, Economic policy, Political economy, Nationalism Studies, History of Communism, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: The Superior Economic Council; planned economy; authoritarian regime; Mitiţă Constantinescu; unions; guilds;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the economic planning institution under authoritarian monarchy of Romania, 1938-1940. The Superior Economic Council, populated by specialists, had the main responsibilities of planning and economic control. The Superior Economic Council composition will be found in the structures of the National Renaissance Front as well as in the composition of the corporatist Parliament. The appointment of the Members of the The Superior Economic Council by royal decree has highlighted the monarch’s desire to have a personal institution, which would be composed of all the important representatives of the Economy, Industry and Finances. The Super Ministry, Ministry of National Economy, headed by Mitiţă Constantinescu, have the task of guidance, coordination and encouragement of the progress for the productive forces distribution of production, direction and supervision of importation, and preparation of economic laws. By the Decree of October 1939, the Ministry of National Economy may could decide the syndicalization of all enterprises, from a specific industrial branch, setting concrete tasks of production and selling of goods. The Superior Economic Council was established to coordinate the corporate economy through policies of planism and economic nationalization, but the corporate institutution of the Romanian authoritative state was the guild

  • Issue Year: IV/2016
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 185-194
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian