- Branko Horvat
Branko Horvat (
24 July 1928 -18 December 2003 ) was Croatianeconomist andpolitician . He worked a long time at the Institute of Economic Sciences, the former Planning Institute of theSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . He was the editor of the journal "Economic Analysis and Worker’s Self-Management", and collaborator of the journal "Praxis", to which he contributed much from the economic viewpoint, though he was not a member of that group. He was also a member of the Economic Institute ofZagreb .Horvat, whose name means "Croat", had tried to unite democratic forces on a common platform, but without much success. He was highly critical of the economic policy of the
Franjo Tuđman government (as he was before of the communist). He advocated a sort ofmarket socialism , a combination ofsocial democracy andmarket economy . In 1992 he founded and became president of the Social Democratic Union. Horvat organized a Balkan Conference with the primary aim of restoring cooperation between Yugoslav forces.His most widely known study is "The Political Economy of Socialism" (published in 1982 in English, in 1984 in Croatian, and in 2001 in Chinese). The
American Society of Economists has nominated Horvat for the Nobel Prize for economy for this study.External links
* [http://www.roiw.org/1968/19.pdf An Integrated System of Social Accounts for an Economy of the Yugoslav Type]
* [http://www.efzg.hr/main.aspx?ID=2998 Biography of Horvat] hr icon
* [http://www.ekonomist.co.yu/magazin/em191/lib/lib2.htm In memoriam] hr icon
* [http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr170/horvat.htm 1993 interview with Horvat]
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