Essays on the Yugoslav Economic Model

Essays on the Yugoslav Economic Model PDF Author: George Macesich
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
This volume treats various aspects of the Yugoslav economic model and focuses on the long-term program of stabilization undertaken by that country in the last few years. The contributors discuss such diverse topics as the country's socioeconomic relations, and problems and prospects for carrying out a long-term stabilization program. Essays on the Yugoslav Economic Model puts forth a number of assertions relating to the country's economic performance: that Yugoslavia must resort to greater reliance on markets; it must become more export oriented with a fully convertible currency; the country must rid itself of debilitating inflation; it must preserve a social policy consistent with its socialist principles. This volume treats various aspects of the Yugoslav economic model and focuses on the long-term program of stabilization undertaken by that country in the last few years. Essays on the Yugoslav Economic Model puts forth a number of assertions relating to the country's economic performance: that Yugoslavia must resort to greater reliance on markets; it must become more export oriented with a fully convertible currency; the country must rid itself of debilitating inflation; it must preserve a social policy consistent with its socialist principles. Furthermore, Yugoslavia must take all of these measures and more within the constraints of the existing socio-political framework of socialist self-management and heterogeneous population. The contributors each agree that given the country's diversity, a resort to markets is the only meaningful option available.

An Essay on Yugoslav Society

An Essay on Yugoslav Society PDF Author: Branko Horvat
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351711946
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This title was first published in 1967. In the foreword the author states that the present Essay was not written in haste, and probably cannot be read through in haste either. It is the result of my thinking about our society for the last sixteen years. The section "The Transition Period" was written and published as long ago as 1951 ; the last section, on the theory of the party, was written only after the Brioni Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, when study of these problems had become socially relevant, in the sense of the quotation of Marx that has been adopted as the epigraph of this book. Part of the text has been published in Ekonomist, Pregled, Gledüta and Na&e teme. Part I and Chapters 11 and 14 are taken from my book Towards a Theory of Planned Economy.

The Functioning of the Yugoslav Economy

The Functioning of the Yugoslav Economy PDF Author: Radmila Stojanovic
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351544446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
In this volume, Stojanovic draws together several essays by Yugoslav economists to an English audience. Originally published in 1982, these works present and analyse the issues that faced Yugoslavia?s economic development and the functioning of their economic system at the time of writing through a wide selection of views. Not only does this work provide an insight into Yugoslavia?s economic policies, the reader is also granted an insight into the social climate under which these essays were written. This title will be of interest to students of Economics and History.

Essays on the Political Economy of Yugoslavia

Essays on the Political Economy of Yugoslavia PDF Author: Rikard Lang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic stabilization
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Compilation of essays on the economic policy of Yugoslavia - discusses historical and current economic and social development trends, workers self management, political development, economic planning, social planning, income distribution, price policies, monetary policies, fiscal policies, capital formation, regional development, trade, import dependence, trade policies, social policies, standard of living, agricultural development prospects, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Yugoslavia in the Age of Democracy

Yugoslavia in the Age of Democracy PDF Author: George Macesich
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
This contributed volume examines the economic and political reforms underway in Yugoslavia. Scholars from the U.S. and Yugoslavia analyze this dramatic period of transition, suggesting how these changes can best be handled and how Yugoslavia's significant problems can be mitigated.

The Labor-managed Economy

The Labor-managed Economy PDF Author: Jaroslav Vanek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Monograph comprising an evaluation of workers self management experiences in Peru and Yugoslavia - discusses the solutions to macroeconomics problems such as unequal income distribution, decision making on capital investment, and labour productivity within self-managed firms, etc., and considers micro and macro economic theory relating to efficiency and competition. Graphs and references.

Comparative Socialist Systems

Comparative Socialist Systems PDF Author: Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
Anthology of essays comprising a comparison of politics and economics in socialist countries. Covers (1) theory, (incl. social indicators, classification schemes and models), (2) comparative political systems in Eastern Europe (incl. political parties, bureaucracy, cultural factors), (3) socialist economic systems (incl. aspects of the planned economy, trade, industrial policy, etc.), and (4) a view of the future.

The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia

The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia PDF Author: Dijana Jelača
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319474820
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories and situated critiques of neoliberalism, the volume rethinks the relationship between capitalism and socialism. Rather than treating capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive systems of political, social and economic order, the volume puts forth the idea that in the context of the former Yugoslavia, they are marked by a mutually intertwined existence not only on the economic level, but also on the level of cultural production and consumption. It argues that culture—although very often treated as secondary in the analyses of either socialism, capitalism or their relationship—has an important role in defining, negotiating, and resisting the social, political and economic values of both systems.

Don't Mourn, Balkanize!

Don't Mourn, Balkanize! PDF Author: Andrej Grubačić
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604864702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! is the first book written from the radical left perspective on the topic of Yugoslav space after the dismantling of the country. In this collection of essays, commentaries, and interviews, written between 2002 and 2010, Andrej Grubačić speaks about the politics of balkanization—about the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, neoliberal structural adjustment, humanitarian intervention, supervised independence of Kosovo, occupation of Bosnia, and other episodes of Power which he situates in the long historical context of colonialism, conquest, and intervention. But he also tells the story of the balkanization of politics, of the Balkans seen from below. A space of bogumils—those medieval heretics who fought against Crusades and churches—and a place of anti-Ottoman resistance; a home to hajduks and klefti, pirates and rebels; a refuge of feminists and socialists, of antifascists and partisans; of new social movements of occupied and recovered factories; a place of dreamers of all sorts struggling both against provincial “peninsularity” as well as against occupations, foreign interventions and that process which is now, in a strange inversion of history, often described by that fashionable term, “balkanization.” For Grubačić, political activist and radical sociologist, Yugoslavia was never just a country—it was an idea. Like the Balkans itself, it was a project of inter-ethnic co-existence, a trans-ethnic and pluricultural space of many diverse worlds. Political ideas of inter-ethnic cooperation and mutual aid as we had known them in Yugoslavia were destroyed by the beginning of the 1990s—disappeared in the combined madness of ethno-nationalist hysteria and humanitarian imperialism. This remarkable collection chronicles political experiences of the author who is himself a Yugoslav, a man without a country; but also, as an anarchist, a man without a state. This book is an important reading for those on the Left who are struggling to understand the intertwined legacy of inter-ethnic conflict and inter-ethnic solidarity in contemporary, post-Yugoslav history.

Why Do Countries Break Up?

Why Do Countries Break Up? PDF Author: Vladimir Gligorov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
"In Chapter 2 the process of the discovery of liberalism during the communist rule is discussed and the reasons for its failure given. All the classical liberal ideas were discovered in Yugoslavia in conflict with the socialist principles; they failed to play a key role in the transformation of the country because they did not arise from an idea of a Yugoslav state."--ABSTRACT. "In Chapter 3 a "straightforward explanation" of the break up of Yugoslavia is given. It is argued that the state did not break up for economic reasons (as a way to get out of socialism), but for the following two reasons: (i) independent ethnic state is the long term strategy of Serbs and Croats (the two dominant Yugoslav nations); (ii) political preferences came to dominate the economic ones in the process of transformation. Given the goals and the preferences and given the facts of the ethnic configuration, the break up of Yugoslavia was inevitable and it inevitably had to be inconclusive."--ABSTRACT. "In Chapter 4 the contribution of the communist legacy is discussed and the record of individual and collective rights left in the ex-Yugoslav states is reviewed. It is shown that none of the newly established states has achieved a significant increase in those rights and is far from any ideal of a liberal state."--ABSTRACT.