Branko Horvat (24 July 1928 – 18 December 2003) was a

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and

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. Horvat was born in

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on 24 July 1928. In 1944 during

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, Horvat and his father Artur Horvat joined the Partisan movement in Croatia. He worked a long time at the Institute of Economic Sciences, the former Planning Institute of the

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. 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 an economic viewpoint, though he was never a member of the group. He was also a member of the Economic Institute of

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. Horvat tried to unite democratic forces on a common platform, but without much success. He was highly critical of the economic policy of the

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government (as he was before of the communist). A

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, he advocated a model of

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, dubbed the ''Illyrian model'', where firms were owned and self-managed by their workers and competed with each other in open and free markets. 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). He was nominated for the

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in 1983. Branko Horvat's wife, Ranka Peašinović, was a professor at the University of Zagreb. A street in

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was named in Horvat's honour.

References

Sources

External links

* Branko Horvat (1971)
“Business Cycles in Yugoslavia”
* Branko Horvat
"An Integrated System of Social Accounts for an Economy of the Yugoslav Type"

Umro profesor Branko Horvat

In memoriam

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