Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/330448 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Essays in Economic & Business History (EEBH) [ISSN:] 2376-9459 [Volume:] 38 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 193-223
Publisher: 
Economic and Business History Society (EBHS), Rockford, MI
Abstract: 
This article presents the case of Charilaos Trikoupis, who is considered to have been the first to modernize the Greek economy. The argument here, based on a review of the daily press and parliamentary proceedings of his time, is that Trikoupis' development plan was, apart from its modernism, also based on a grand delusion. Trikoupis was a political conquistador in his undertaking of bridging a path of capital between the advanced Occident and Greece. While it became apparent that the strategy he had developed had begun heading towards a profound dead-end, he never actually revised it, although he should have. The focus of this article is not to deny Trikoupis' role as a modernizer, but re-evaluate and refine it.
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