Etatism of the economy of the Second Polish Republic in the period of parliamentary democracy: Conditions, stages, evaluation (Part 1: 1918-1923)​
Etatism of the economy of the Second Polish Republic in the period of parliamentary democracy: Conditions, stages, evaluation (Part 1: 1918-1923)​

Summary/Abstract: The article is part of a study analysing the development of the state sector in the economy of the Second Polish Republic before the May coup d'état in 1926. The aim is to resolve - in the light of divergent positions presented in the literature on the subject - whether during the period of parliamentary democracy the etatist tendency was growing continuously or was subject to periodic fluctuations. The verification basis is an estimation of the percentage share of state ownership in total national wealth. The first part of the study covers general issues (concepts, international background, internal conditionings, forms of inter-war etatism) and analysis of the increase in state ownership in the Second Polish Republic in 1918-1923, resulting from the acquisition of economic entities belonging to the partitioning countries (Austro-Hungary, Germany and Russia) before 1914 and various forms of etatism in the subsequent periods of: shaping the statehood of the country, during the war for borders, the economy after the war, cyclical and monetary problems, etc.

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