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The Economic Lag of Central and Eastern Europe: Income Estimates for the Habsburg Successor States, 1870–1910

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

David F. Good
David F. Good
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Professor of History and Director of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
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Abstract

The lack of nineteenth-century national income figures for the small states of present-day Central and Eastern Europe hampers studies of long-term economic development in the region. This article fills the gap by using a proxy approach to estimate GDP per capita on the territories of the Habsburg successor states for the period 1870 to 1910. The results give added support for more optimistic interpretations of the region's performance under Habsburg rule. More importantly, they can be linked to national income figures for later years and used directly in comparisons of international income levels between 1870 and 1987.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 869 - 891
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1994

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