Crises and Possibilities for Development: Economic Practices of Bulgarian Merchants from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Svetla Atanasova ()
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Svetla Atanasova: Regional museum of history - Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2019, vol. 4, 119-131

Abstract: The subject illustrates internal and external factors and causative links, which bring economic instability, bankrupt threat and a need for change in the activity of the Revival period trade companies from the second half of the XIX century. Amongst the main reasons for instability are natural disasters and fires, national liberation movements on the Balkans in 1875 – 1876, the Serbian – Turkish war and the Russian – Turkish war, the economic collapse of the Empire, drop of the Turkish currency, overflow of the inner market with European factory goods and the fall of local manufactured goods, dishonest partnership and others. The consequences of the crisis lead to regulation and development: a change in companies, limitations to the scale of economic activity, transition of capital towards the industry, loaning of real estate and last but not least importantly – the establishment of new economic structures. In the research, cases of the practice of different merchants are analyzed – from Tarnovo – Todor Vasilev, from Svishtov – Dimitar and Grigor Nachovich, from Varna – Yanko Slavchev and others.

Keywords: crisis; regulation; development; economic practice; Bulgarian merchants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N01 N83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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