Branko Horvat

Branko Horvat ( born July 24, 1928 in Petrinja, † 18 December 2003 ) was a Yugoslav and Croatian economist and politician.

Life

Branko Horvat was the son of a surgeon Artur Horvat ( 1895-1980 ). He studied economics at the University of Zagreb, where he received his doctorate in 1955. In 1963 he founded the Institute of Economics in Belgrade, which he directed until 1970. From 1975 he was professor of economics at the University of Zagreb.

From 1989 Branko Horvat was chairman of the UJDI ( Association for a Yugoslav Democratic Initiative ), 1992, he founded the Socijalnodemokratska unija (Social Democratic Union), whose leader he became.

Works

• Three definitions of the social product, in: Economic policy. Journal of Applied Economic Research, Vol 6.1960, p 27-40.
• Analysis of the economic situation and proposal for a program of action, in: Practice ( International Edition ), Vol 1971, p 533-562
• The Yugoslav society. An Essay, 1972 ( original edition: ogled o Jugoslavenskom društvu, 1969)
• The workers' self-management. The Yugoslav economic model, 1974 ( original edition: Ekonomska teorija planske privrede ( Economic theory and economic planning ) )
• Kosovsko pitanje ( The Kosovo issue ), 1988 (ISBN 86-343-0447-7 )
• The theory of international trade. An alternative approach, 1999 ( ISBN 0-333-73409-2 )
• The results of backward transition in the Republic of Croatia, in: At the crossroads. Disaster or Normalization? The Yugoslav successor states in the 1990s, ed. v. Valeria Heuberger, 1999 ( ISBN 3-631-33091- X ), pp. 55-61

Branko Horvat was editor of the journal Economic Analysis and Worker's Management, which appeared from 1967 to 1993.