UN PROFIL ANTREPRENORIAL DIN MOLDOVA EPOCII REGULAMENTARE: ANASTASIE BAȘOTĂ
AN ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE IN MOLDAVIA DURING THE REGULATIONS PERIOD: ANASTASIE BAȘOTĂ

Summary/Abstract: The abolition of the Ottoman monopoly created favorable conditions for the development of agricultural production. The owners of the estates, consolidating their profits obtained in the previous period, have the possibility under the regime of Organic Regulation, to accelerate the reserve of developing process, by further, limiting the right of peasants to use the land and by increasing the work obligations. At the end of the regulatory period, the land reserve extends, over of a surface that reaches half of the total arable land, grassland and lawn. During these transformations, boyars changes its appearance, is getting closer to the bourgeoisie, through concerns and mentality. Anastasie Bașotă is proving to be a man of the new times, with entrepre-neurial spirit and skill, manifested not only in a new, modern way of accounting, but also in trying to practice on his estates a more rational agriculture, in accordance with market demand. Even if he was one of the most enterprising, Bașotă wasnʼt the richest. His estates being wasted (the Dorohoi, Botoșani, Iași, Roman lands), they could be administered at that time with great weight, fully demanding initiative, skill and orientation − qualities that Anastasie Bașotă has fully demonstrated. Bașotă has been involved in various economic activities, depending on market demand, from practicing agriculture and animal husbandry to marketing agricultural and craft products to get to the practice of usury and establishment of the “Cambial Society”. Without giving up to the advantages that came from exercising administrative functions, Anastasie Bașotă was much more attached to the direct land exploitation or through the lease.

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