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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: A study in economic nationalism: Foreign trade policies and modernization in interwar Hungary, 1919--1939 Abstract: This study examines the evolution of foreign trade policies during the interwar period to assess the impact economic nationalism had on Hungary's modernization process.I argue for a reconsideration of the standard view of economic nationalism as a degrading force and contend that policies of economic nationalism provided a temporary, if far from ideal, solution to the problems of backwardness. A number of important factors conditioned and constrained Hungary's experience, not only new political and economic realities that had dire consequences for international cooperation but also significant socioeconomic and sociopolitical transformations at home. The growth of state bureaucracies, which accompanied the decline of traditional elites, facilitated the implementation of economic nationalist policies. The incomplete metamorphosis of society, however, placed constraints on the full realization of the precepts of economic nationalism. The state administration continued to wrestle with the traditional elite, the landowners, as well as new or newer elements, a growing financial and industrial elite and the extreme Right and Left. Within this context, Hungary mixed elements of both import substitution and export-led development. The outcome was slow economic growth and lopsided development, but development nonetheless. |
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