„Anuarul Institutului de Istorie «George Barițiu» din Cluj-Napoca”, tom LVII, 2018, p. 109–123 IMPLICAŢII ECONOMICE ŞI FINANCIARE ALE PRIMULUI RĂZBOI MONDIAL. ÎMPRUMUTURILE DE RĂZBOI Iosif-Marin Balog * , Ioan Lumperdean ** Abstract: This article aims to outline some aspects of the economic and financial implications of the First World War, the mechanisms and means by which this conflict has been financially supported We will first look at how the war loans contributed financially to support the needs of the front, how the population was called upon to support this effort, and of course, the propaganda of the authorities in this regard. If the budget for civilian spending could be assured from collecting taxes, the financing of the war had to be secured in other ways. There were not many solutions: exports that would provide sufficient resources were no longer possible in the new situation; also, access to financing on the international capital market has become virtually impossible under war conditions. As a result, the only viable solution was the appeal to domestic loans that became a tool used by the state to attract the financial resources needed to support the war effort from the population and the banks. Thus, following the example of Germany, Austro-Hungary has launched a well-organized campaign to contract every 6 months of loans in the domestic market. In total, were made 8 loans. It was considered a patriotic duty of every citizen to support the cause of the war, all these efforts being considered as part of a genuine "domestic front", in which, without exception, all citizens had to be engaged, according to their forces and capabilities. At the end of the article, a statistic of the value of these loans is also presented. Keywords: World War I, economic implications, Austria-Hungary, Transylvania, War loans În ultimii ani istoriografia despre Primul Război Mondial a cunoscut atât în spaţiul internaţional cât şi la noi un avânt remarcabil, prilejuit de momentul comemorării unui veac de la debutul marii conflagraţii, generând o bogată şi variată literatură istorică dedicată acestui subiect. Perspectivele metodologice şi tematice diverse acoperă un spectru larg de problematici, de le cele considerate clasice, la cele care-şi propun noi perspective de (re)lecturare şi interpretare a surselor istorice. Rezultatele s-au concretizat deja în zeci de volume şi sute de studii şi articole care acoperă diverse subiecte, de la cele politico-diplomatice şi militare 1 , la analiza implicaţiilor războiului în aspectele demografice şi ale vieţii de * CSII dr., Institutul de Istorie „G. Bariţiu” Cluj-Napoca ; iosif_balog@yahoo.de ** Prof. univ. dr., Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca; ioanlumpedean@yahoo.com 1 Primul Război Mondial, perspectivă istorică şi istoriografică. A historical and historio- graphical perspective. Ed. by Ioan Bolovan, Gheorghe Cojocaru, Oana Mihaela Tămaş, Cluj-Napoca, Academia Română. Centrul de Studii Transilvane/Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2015. Nu ne propunem în acest context a realiza un excurs bibliografic exhaustiv; vom exemplifica doar prin cele mai importante lucrări apărute în ultimii ani. De altfel, Anuarul istoriografic al României reprezintă cea mai accesibilă sursă în acest sens.