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NEOCLASSICISM IN THE BALKANS AND OTHER ESSAYS

Author: Dr Vladimir Gligorov

Belgrade, 2012 / 270 pages
Language: English
Format: B5
ISBN: 978-86-908103-4-5

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book reviews the Balkan transition, regionally and country by country. The failure of transition to promote development and modernization is explained by institutional and political deficiencies. The aim is to highlight the enduring characteristics of the Balkan economies and thus provide the reasons for this regions continuous falling behind the developed countries. So, the book deals with Balkan failure on the example of political and economic transition in the last few decades.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vladimir Gligorov (born 1945) is a prominent economist and was a founder of the Democratic Party in Serbia in December 1989. Gligorov is Senior Researcher at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). He lectures at the University of Vienna and University of Graz. Previously he was associated inter alia with the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, New York; The Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; Uppsala University, Sweden. Publications of direct relevance for the current book are Why Do Countries Break Up? The Case of Yugoslavia, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1994, and Talog, Peščanik, 2010.

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