A „szántói modell”: A helyi gazdaság eltartóképességének növekedése és az ezt kiváltó tényezők Zalaszántón
The “Szántó model”: the growth of the sustaining ability of the local economy and the factors that caused it at Zalaszántó

Summary/Abstract: The essay is one of the writings that thematise the growth of the Hungarian economy which started in the 1830s, along with its causes. Presenting the economic and social changes that occurred in the economy of a small village, Zalaszántó (Zala County) between 1790 and 1850, the author shows that modifications successfully introduced in the technics, technology and business organization of an economic unit displaying signs of overpopulation considerably increased the population sustaining ability of the village by the end of the period under consideration. The growth of the local economy is described primarily as a phenomenon generated by the manor, i.e. laying the foundations of the processes generating growth is attributed to changes in the management of the manor of the Festetics family at Keszthely. The period under discussion is divided in two parts in terms of the transformation of the local economy, the one between the 1780 and the 1820s being that of extensive growth, the other between 1830 and 1850, of intensive growth. The last part of the paper sums up the results in a dynamic model, the so-called "Szántó model", which could be used as a basis for comparison during future investigations of local economy.

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