Economic Development in Bulgarian Ideas and Projects for State Organization and Governance in the 19th Century until 1879

Petko St. Petkov ()
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Petko St. Petkov: ‘St Cyril and St Methodius’ University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2023, vol. 8, 60-71

Abstract: The article examines the ideas and projects for the economic development of Bulgarians, including the factors of economic growth or regression, which are present in the program documents of Bulgarian public and political figures and organizations until 1879. Instead of a complex of factors supporting future economic growth, some of these documents contain a sharp critical attitude to the causes of economic backwardness (the lack of guarantees for legal order in the Ottoman state, the discriminatory attitude towards non-Muslims, the heavy tax burden, etc.). The manifestations of economic divination, containing realistic and well-grounded ideas for economic prosperity, stand out: the program of Sophronius Vrachanski from 1811, the part of the memoir from 1867 on the importance of the state budget as an instrument of effective economic management, the economic nationalism of Georgi St. Rakovski, the sensible idea, implemented in the practice of the Exarchate, to manage the non-spiritual secular affairs of the Bulgarians by a special institution, the Mixed Council, operating both at the central level and in each diocese.

Keywords: economic development; Bulgarian ideas and projects; program documents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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