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Name: Theodoros Sakellaropoulos
Email: THESAK at PANTEION.GR
Institution: Panteion Uuniversity, Athens
Co-author: None
Title: The Bourgeois Revolution and the Industrialisation in Greece
Internet Address of abstracted work: not available
By mail:
Theodoros Sakellaropoulos
Athens 14123
Dimitsansas 19
Greece
Language: German
Abstract:
The article deals with the delayed economic development of modern
Greece. In contrast to the older Marxist or neoclassical
interpretations which seek to explain the backwardness on the basis
of the lack of productive factors such as capital, workforces, raw
materials etc., the author argues convincingly that the backwardness
is to be explained by the delayed institutional transformation and
bourgeois revolution, developments which started in the 19th and were
completed in the third decade of the 20th century. Such institutional
reforms as the land reform, the formation of a single internal
market, the creation of a secure framework for investment and
business etc., were closely related to the finishing of the national
unification process of Greece in the year 1922. Since all these
institutional preconditions for a capitalist development have been
established, the road for a modern economy and society in Greece was
opened.
Bibliography: Sakellaropoulos, Theodoros. "Buergeriche Revolution und
Industrialisierung in Griechenland." Conference presentation in
Konferenzmaterial, H.69, Hochschule fuer Oekonomie,Berlin, 1985, pp.
234-243.
Subject: D
Geographical Area: 4
Country/Region: GREECE
Time Period: 8
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