The Centre for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth is organizing an event during which the presentation of the publication by Dr Kyprianos D. Louis entitled: Entrepreneurship and Economic Strategy in Cyprus during the first half of the 19th century: The Case of Georgakis Markantonidis (Nicosia: Centre for Scientific Research, 2021).
The event will take place at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, on 30 May 2022, at 19:30. The publication will be presented by Vassilis Kardasis, Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economics of the University of Crete and Theocharis Stavridis, Associate Professor of Ottoman History at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Cyprus.
The publication focuses on Ottoman-occupied Cyprus in the early 19th century and examines the economic functions performed by Georgakis Markantonidis as a merchant and administrative agent in the Cypriot market. As the study demonstrates, Markantonides was the social type of capitalist who combined the administrative and economic advantages of his position, family background, political connections, and business activities to achieve his goals. His business strategy helped to secure finance through the concentration of 'industrial' products (commodities), both for the distribution of goods and for the development of other activities such as small corporate trading partnerships, monopoly-type holdings and leases of tax annuities and chequilas. Throughout the book a complex and multi-layered web of relationships emerges, which develops involving the local Ottoman authorities, the Cypriot church, the 'Cypriot Commune', merchants, 'laborers', servants, craftsmen, local workers and others. This network of relations defines the economic relations of the period under consideration.
Reservations by phone 22456320 or at tpeccini@moec.gov.cy until 23 May.
Reservations by phone 22456320 or at tpeccini@moec.gov.cy until 23 May.
All health protocols of the Ministry of Health will be observed at the event.
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