A Nulla év 1918 gazdasága Popovics Sándor pénzügyminisztersége alatt THE ECONOMY OF THE ZERO YEAR 1918, DURING THE PERIOD OF FINANCE MINISTER SÁNDOR POPOVICS

Absztrakt

   In my dissertation I deal with the economic events of the last year of the First World War in Hungary.

   In the last year of the first big war the industry of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was barely capable of supplying the fighting troops. There was a shortage of clothing, weapons and food in the army. Also the land became poor in the long war. I want to present the intense exhaustion which was characterized this period. The process that depleted all human, material and financial resources. The war effort has weakened the country within.

   I show the strong state intervention which in the last year of the First World War determined the everyday of the Hungarian economy.

   The most important economic things in this time was the food affair, the question of coal supply, the situation of the railway and the destiny of the common money of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. I try to illuminate these elementary factors a little bit better.