GENERAL UNION OF INDUSTRIALISTS OF ROMANIA AND THE MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY

Abstract

General Union of Industrialists of Romania (AGIR) was a representative institution which aimed to support Romanian industrialists in the country's economic development. The Romanian economy had reached a certain level, the current favorable to the industrialization had also penetrated here, given the fact that Romania had huge resources, warning a number of foreign investors. A group of industrialists, almost all educated in the West, understood to develop the most diverse industries, particularly those related to a specific tradition, given the diversity of raw materials for safekeeping. The political struggle, carried out to promote the industry, was not devoid of contradictions between the „agrarians”, who considered Romania a country eminently agricultural, on the one hand, and the promoters of industrialization, on the other hand. Industry superiority eventually defeated the former. In 1938, the year of peak economy, Romania had an industry that had come to equal, in terms of the share of the national income, agriculture.

Keywords

• capital
• industrialists
• protectionist custom tariff
• minimum tax
• quotas