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Theorists of Economic Nationalism in 1930s–1940s Romania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2019

Ştefan Cristian Ionescu
Ştefan Cristian Ionescu*
Affiliation:
The Hugo Valentin Center, History Department, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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*Corresponding author. Email: stefan.ionescu@valentin.uu.se, sionescu2011@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article examines the main theorists of economic nationalism (Romanianization) and their ideas promoting protectionism and anti-Semitism in 1930s–1940s Romania. Trying to offer a rational scientific justification for excluding foreigners, especially Jews, and increasing the role of ethnic Romanians in the economy, major scholars of economics offered solutions toward successful Romanianization. Because some of these economists were also influential politicians and public intellectuals, their investigations and blueprints for the project gained wide publicity and provided steps for achieving it rapidly and thoroughly. These economists disseminated their theoretical and empirical constructions of Romanianization in university courses, public lectures, and publications. Some were important scholars; among them, Virgil Madgearu, Mihail Manoilescu, Gheorghe N. Leon, Ion Răducanu, and D. R. Ioaniţescu, They examined Romanianization of the economy from the 1930s to the 1940s and influenced the agenda of local elites and the general public, due to their prestigious positions as politicians, public intellectuals, and professors at local universities.

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economic nationalismprotectionismRomanianizationanti-Semitismnation building
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 264 - 279
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019 

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