“Ston/Stagno” conclusions: Archduke’s thoughts – Economy
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One of the Archduke’s guiding thoughts clearly comes out here as it does in other books on various places in the Mediterranean. It’s the idea of ensuring a positive impact on the welfare of societies from good public investments. The Archduke focused mostly on infrastructure investments (canals, ports, draining marshes, etc.). However, issues such as sustainability or environmental impacts didn’t appear in his arguments, giving relatively greater importance to development than to environmental protection.
In several of his books, the idea of “bad public investments” also appears, attributing them to political reasons ( Ston), others to poor implementation ( Opatija and Trsteno) or poor follow-up, and others to the fact that when people think too much about things, they never get done ( Ston).
Lastly, what criteria did the Archduke use when choosing the places he would then dedicate a book to? Perhaps we’ll have a more solid idea in a couple of years and be able to answer this question.
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