Karel Žlábek (economist)

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Karel Žlábek (born August 12, 1900 in Čanovice , Okres Kladno , Austria-Hungary ; died April 16, 1984 ) was a Czechoslovak economist.

Life

Karel Žlábek studied industrial engineering at the Technical University in Prague and received a doctorate in economics from the University of Zurich . He completed his habilitation in 1936 at the TH Prague and worked there as a university lecturer until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, when he was dismissed. Žlábek's brother was murdered by the German occupation and Žlábek fled to Slovakia in 1944 . After the end of the war, Žlábek was employed again at the TH, was appointed professor and tasked with reorganizing the business administration course. In 1950 he was fired by the communists. He received calls to Poland and Argentina, but was not given an exit permit.

In the 1970s, Žlábek got involved in the Adriaport project, with which an extraterritorial rail tunnel was supposed to connect the central European inland state Czechoslovakia to the ocean traffic in the Adriatic. The soil excavated from Czechoslovakia, Austria and Yugoslavia during the construction of the tunnel was to be used for the construction of an artificial island in the Adriatic Sea near Koper . The island, called Adriaport, was to become part of Czechoslovakia. Žlábek was able to interest the communist Czechoslovak President Gustáv Husák in the idea .

Fonts (selection)

  • About the economic organization of a medium-sized machine factory with series production . Bratislava, 1925. Dissertation Zurich, 1925
  • Diagramy "Z": příspěvek k podnikové ekonometrii . Prague, 1940
  • Economic theory of the company in the main ideas of its theoretical foundation . Munich, 1968

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SURNAME Žlábek, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Čanovice
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1984