Domanovsky A. The State Control and Regulation of Trade in Byzantium during IV-IX Centuries

The object of study - history of the state control and regulations of trade activity in the Byzantine empire of IV-IX century, trade-economic politics of the early-medieval Byzantine state. The purpose of study is attempt to find out a role of state regulation of trade in socio-economic development of the Byzantine empire of IV-IX century, to estimate importance of state intervention in organization of a trade exchange. The methods: analysis, synthesis, classification, comparative-historical, historical-genetic, synchronous, diachronous, method of mathematical and structurally-functional modeling. The practical value of work consists in use of materials of the dissertation by preparation of generalizing scientific works, general and special courses of lectures, textbooks and manuals on a history of the Byzantine empire and adjacent with her states and peoples, thematic expositions of museums, sites in a network the Internet, scientific and educational editions on a history of state regulation of economy. In the dissertation on the basis of studying a wide complex of sources and the scientific literature the state control and regulation of trade over Byzantine empire IV-IX centuries is analyzed. Features, principles and tasks of state regulation of trade in Byzantium were caused by specific characteristics of commercial exchange of any pre-capitalistic societies, where trade carried out mainly attendant-consumer functions. Intervention from the state only aggravated these features and prevented occurrence in economic system of opportunities for expanded manufacture.