THE ECONOMY OF NATIONS. SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC STATE POLICIES IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR
The article focuses on the main aspects of economic policies in
Eastern Europe after the Peace Treaty of Versailles, when the whole region witnessed
the collapse of the old multinational empires and their replacement with national states
that were theoretically built according to the principle of national selfdetermination,
though they were in many cases as ethnically mixed as the old empires. As a matter of
fact, the new frontiers did not perfectly correspond to the ethnic divisions among the