Macedo-Romanian Economic Successes of the Habsburg Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Abstract

Skilled tradesmen, Macedo-Romanians settled in the Habsburg Empire after their home expulsion, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by liberalism that just grow, they constituted a vigorous economic force. Merchants industrialists and bankers, they contribute greatly to the development of the Empire, leaving posterity good things, engaging quite often as patrons (supporters of culture) of the Romanian community in the Empire. This paper, using qualitative research based on the study of social documents, would like to substantiate the hypothesis by which entrepreneurship can be developed in any historical moment, even at the early capitalism, regardless of culture, social class of the human being, level of education, when will created optimal conditions for its expression. What happened during the period of the XVIII – XIX centuries, in the Habsburg Empire, today can be a good example for free enterprise-oriented economic policies that could be promoted today, generating important benefits for the whole society.