CERTAIN HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF STATE INTERVENTIONS INTO SPHERE OF MATERIAL GOODS PRODUCTION AND ITS INFLUENCE OVER THE PRIVATE PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS FREEDOM OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY (FROM ANTIQUITY TO EARLY MODERN PERIOD)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/klj/2023.3.6Keywords:
business, freedom of business activity, economic interventions, monopoly, state-private partnership.Abstract
Abstract. The article deals with determination of certain features of influence of state interventions into sphere of material goods production over the volume of freedom of business activity of private product manufacturers within historical frame covered from antiquity to early modern period. The author considers the historical aspects of Roman state intervention into sphere of mining, particularly mining of gold as well as the character of relationships between state and business and influence of state over freedom of business activity of private product manufacturers paying attention to limited state participation in goods production processes. It is determined that in ancient times state mainly willed to acquire goods and to get works and services from manufacturers paying money that had been got as taxes and war booty rather than to produce such goods itself in necessary volume. It is concluded that the character of Roman state’s participation in economic processes is the direct evidence of providing by the state in appropriate historical period such volume of freedom of private product manufacturer’s business activity as it had been determined by themselves during process of self-organizational evolution of business. The state mainly relied on business and established conditions for its development besides some trade restrictions related to inter-state relationships. At the same time as an example the British East-Indian Company activity is the direct evidence of a case when state do not restrict freedom of business activity but vice versa broadly extend it and even delegated the state functions to private legal entity. And at once this is the example of that how dangerous for public interests could be a broad freedom of business activity of legal entity deeply integrated into state economy.
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