Role státu ve výstavbě a provozu železnice od 30. let 19. století do 20. let 20. století v interakci s vývojem ekonomického myšlení v českých zemích

Role of State in Railway Construction and Operation from 1830s to 1920s in Interaction with Development of Economic Thought in Czech Lands

Radim Ječný and Božena Kadeřábková

Politická ekonomie, 2022, vol. 2022, issue 2, 235-254

Abstract: The topic of this study is historical analysis of the construction of the Czech railway network and the role of the state in its development in comparison with economic thought of the time. The aim of this study is to present relations between the development of theoretical economic foundations and the actual railway construction in the Czech lands from the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. During this time, the railway network was constructed in the shape it functions until these days. The topic is examined as a historical sequence of interactions between actual railway construction and operation and economic opinions regarding the role of the state in construction and running of railways. The history of the relationship between the state and the railway went through a few periods differing in the approach of the state to ownership and operation. We can trace the private beginnings from the 1830s, to first state railways from 1841 to 1848, to privatization and indirect state subsidies, to the victorious definite idea of solely state railways in the last third of the 19th century. The study follows detailed discussions of the era together with connections to economic thought of the era.

Keywords: History of railways; railway liberalization; history of Czech economic thought; railway financing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B10 B20 B30 L40 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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