Cartels in the cement industry as effort to overcome the crisis

Abstract

The paper focuses on cartelisation of the cement industry in the Cisleithania and Czechoslovakia in the years 1901-1938. It examines the role of cartel organizations as structures of influence which affected the functioning of the cement market during the boom period and economic crisis.

The research tries to answer the question to what extent did the cement cartels control the market, if they influenced the course of the economic cycle and what was the role of state interventionism.

Keywords

• Cartels
• Cement industry
• Building industry
• Economic policy
• Organizad capitalism