On 5 May 2025, the 2024 volume of the Hungarian Economic History Yearbook was presented at the Szekfű Gyula Library of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities. The volume, edited by György Kövér, Ágnes Pogány and Boglárka Weisz, is this time organised around the topics of interest and the family economy.

Published in the section on interest rates Márton Radnai and Alexandra Szatmári:Hungarian Financial Investment Returns between 1864 and 1913 The article is the first study to analyse the returns of the old stock market in line with international practice. Its main finding is that in the period under review, returns of 8.41% were achieved for stocks and 6.87% for bonds, both significantly above the then prevailing annual inflation rate of 0.33%.

The papers published in this volume are:

CAMERA

LÁSZLÓ PÓSÁN
Residual credit in late medieval Prussian towns (1350-1450)

ATTILA TÓZSA-RIGÓ
Changes in interest rates in the practice of public lending in the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century

KÁROLY HALMOS
The excerpt. Source URL

KOVÁCS KRISZTIÁN
The indebtedness of the Ráday family in the first decades of the 19th century

MÁRTON RADNAI - ALEXANDRA SZATMÁRI
Hungarian financial investment returns between 1864 and 1913

GYULA HORVÁTH
Interest rates, mortality, premium reserve. Regulatory trends in insurance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

ÁGNES POGÁNY
The financial crisis and the protection of the rich. The agricultural debt crisis and its management in Hungary in the 1930s

FAMILY FARM

GÁBOR KOLOH
The small peasant farm. Changes in family farming in rural Hungary in the 19th century

KOVÁCS ESZTER KATALIN
"Cattle can live not only on pasture but also at home"? The struggle of the Erdődy family and the serfs for pasture land in the Vép manor in the 1830s-1840s

TIBOR BALOGH ÁDÁM - KRISZTINA MOLNÁR GYÖNGY
Generations in the history of a successful family business. The successor to Kugler Henrik Gerbeaud

MÁRTON SIMONKAY
Family and competence. Jr. Ferenc Chorin's career between 1921 and 1933

RÓBERT BAGDI
Family farms in Pusztaszakállas, a lowland farm-like rural area

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GYÖRGY KÖVÉR
István Orosz (1935-2024)

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Hungarian Economic History Yearbook 2025. Call for Papers

The volume is available for purchase at Penna's Philosophy Bookshop.