Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia: The Long Transition to a Market Economy

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies

by Milica Uvalić

In this book, Milica Uvalic examines the theoretical and empirical issues related to investment in Yugoslavia since 1965. She explores investment policies, sources of finance, macroeconomic performance, enterprise incentives and current property reforms in relation to Western theory on investment behavior in the labor-managed firm and Kornai's theory on socialist economies. In line with Kornai's theory, the author argues that the fundamental causes of problems in Yugoslavia are generic to socialist economic systems, rather than the specific characteristic of self-management.

276 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992