Short description:

First published in 1982, The Economy of Yugoslavia charts the progress of the Yugoslav economy over sixty years and demonstrates how it achieved rapid quantitative progress in the post-war period. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history and economics.

Long description:

The creation of the Yugoslav state at the end of the First World War brought together the half-assimilated remains of several societies in various stages of development, each with centuries of rule by foreign powers. It was not until the Second World War when a fresh start was made under a new revolutionary regime that Yugoslavia made substantial economic headway and progressed from an underdeveloped country to a medium rank level of development.

First published in 1982, The Economy of Yugoslavia charts the progress of the Yugoslav economy over sixty years and demonstrates how it achieved rapid quantitative progress in the post-war period. The book also shows how Yugoslavia?s own brand of modified socialist planning succeeded in some areas but did not obviate many of the problems such as inflation and unemployment, which have been so familiar to western societies.

The great strength of the book is that it does not discuss the economy in isolation from the many non-economic factors which did so much to shape Yugoslavia?s society. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history and economics.

Table of Contents:

Part One: The Economy of Old Yugoslavia  1. Geographical Background  2. The Yugoslav Peoples Before 1918  3. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918?1941  4. The Economic Development of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes  5. Industry Between the Wars  6. Agriculture Between the Wars  7. The Second World War  Part Two: The Economy of Socialist Yugoslavia 1945?1970  8. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat  9. The Birth of Self-management  10. The Yugoslav Economy During the 1950s  1. The 1960s ? From Crisis to Reform  Part Three: Contemporary Problems of the Yugoslav Economy  Introduction  12. Self-management in the 1970s  13. Planning and Industrial Restructuring  14. Price Instability and Inflation Control  15. Unemployment and the Labour Market  16. The Private Sector  17. Regional Economic Inequalities  18. Foreign Trade and External Relations  19. The Yugoslav Economy in the 1980s  Appendix: Four Stages of Post-war Development