{"title":"Economic Concepts of Slovene Liberalism Before WW II","authors":"Žarko Lazarević","doi":"10.7152/ssj.v31i1.14813","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the economic concepts of Slovene liberalism over a one hundred year span, from the mid-nineteenth century until the outbreak of WW II. The founding of Yugoslavia in itself did not represent a significant turning point in the ideological sense, and it is a fair assertion that the Slovene liberal mentality of the 1920s was an extension of pre-WW I Slovene liberalism. A true ideological turning point, however, was the Great Depression in the 1930s, which subjected liberal economic doctrine to an acid test, and not only in Slovenia. It is noteworthy that this period also witnessed considerable fragmentation of the liberal camp, both in the organizational and ideological spheres. This article examines the reasons for the decline of influence of Slovene economic liberalism as a consequence of the changed political, economic and social circumstances in the 1920s and especially in the 1930s.","PeriodicalId":82261,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Slovene studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"21-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Papers in Slovene studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7152/ssj.v31i1.14813","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article discusses the economic concepts of Slovene liberalism over a one hundred year span, from the mid-nineteenth century until the outbreak of WW II. The founding of Yugoslavia in itself did not represent a significant turning point in the ideological sense, and it is a fair assertion that the Slovene liberal mentality of the 1920s was an extension of pre-WW I Slovene liberalism. A true ideological turning point, however, was the Great Depression in the 1930s, which subjected liberal economic doctrine to an acid test, and not only in Slovenia. It is noteworthy that this period also witnessed considerable fragmentation of the liberal camp, both in the organizational and ideological spheres. This article examines the reasons for the decline of influence of Slovene economic liberalism as a consequence of the changed political, economic and social circumstances in the 1920s and especially in the 1930s.