To Legislative Anchoring of the Sugar Industry in the Newly Established Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1921)

• Authors: Jakub Drábek , Andrej Tóth
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the legislative rules for the state-bound sugar industry in the Czechoslovak Republic in early 1920s. During 1918–1921, the sugar industry was stabilized under the direction of the Czechoslovak Sugar Commission that was gradually increasingly dominated and controlled by the government. The said Commission gradually started absolutely controlling all sugar production with the help of government decrees. Specific legislative measures are analyzed from the perspective of statistical indicators of that time. Although the given immediate period is related with regulated economy, the legal regulations were more liberal in some matters than those existing before the establishment of the independent Czechoslovak state. The efforts of that time resulted in a relatively fast stabilization of postwar sugar industry, bringing considerable profit to the state. In the short period, it was an efficient way of solution of the given issue both for the new territorial unit and, in a sense, for the consumers too.

Keywords

EN

Czechoslovakia; Economy; Sugar Industry; Legislation

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS
• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
• Journal: West Bohemian Historical Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 271-291

Contributors

author

Jakub Drábek

• Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Winston Churchill Square 4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic

author

Andrej Tóth

• Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague, Winston Churchill Square 4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic