Patterns of growth and stagnation in the late nineteenth century Habsburg economy

Anthropometric evidence on economic growth, biological well-being and regional convergence in the Habsburg Monarchy, c. 1850–1910

“…Scholars immediately after the Monarchy's dissolution made the first attempt at gauging the economic performance of the successor states (Fellner 1923;Good 1984, p. 125), and there have been intermittent attempts at weighing the relative performance of the Kingdom of Hungary compared to Imperial Austria (Eddie 1972(Eddie , 1989Komlos 1983;Schulze 2000).…”

Why did the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapse? A public choice perspective

“…In contrast, the Hungarian part of the Empire experienced an above-average rate of growth per capita, especially in early 1880s. As can be seen on Schulze's (2000) time series, the GDP gap between the two parts of the monarchy diminished very rapidly over this period. However, Hungarian growth slowed down in the following decades and the regional economic disparities persisted during the final decades of the common state.…”

“…Schulze (2000) presents revised data on economic growth both in Austrian and Hungarian parts of the monarchy. While it is true that Austria experienced positive and sustained economic growth over this period, one should recognise as well that it failed to catch up with the leading European economies.…”

“…;Good (1974Good ( , 1983 andSchulze (2000Schulze ( , 2007. 8 The Austro-Hungarian Compromise (also known as the Ausgleich or Kiegyeze´s) established a constitutional system in which the Hungarian government in Budapest possessed the same rights and powers as the Austrian government in Vienna.…”

Beggar-Thy-Neighbour vs. Danube Basin Strategy: Habsburg Economic Networks in Interwar Europe

“…The economic rise of the Habsburg Empire in the last decades of its existence was recently contested by the economic historians Max-Stephan Schulze and Michael Pammer [15,16]. Still, it is undisputed that David F. Good was right in stressing the progress in manufacturing and the rising importance of universal banking and big business in this period.…”