Equality, Participation, Transition
Essays in Honour of Branko Horvat
Published on 6. June 2000
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-333-77640-7 (ISBN)
Description
This work is a collection of eleven essays (in addition to an introduction by the editors and a foreword by Benjamin Ward), in honour of Branko Horvat, an economist and social thinker of great international reputation and prestige from former Yugoslavia and nowadays Croatia. The contributors are 17 economists from the United States, the UK, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, and Denmark. The essays deal with themes related to Horvat's own work, namely equality, social justice, employee participation, labour management, systemic change, transition, privatization, and growth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figues, graphs, notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 145 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77640-7 (9780333776407)
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Persons
VOJMIR FRANICEVIC is Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zargreb. He was a Fulbright scholar at the UC Berkeley from 1990-91. - MILICA UVALIC is Associate Professor of International Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Perugia. She is an author and is co-editor, with Will Bartlett, of the journal Economic Analysis -The Journal of Enterprise and Participation.
Content
List of Tables - List of Figures - Foreword by Benjamin Ward - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Always Against the Mainstream; M.Uvalic & V.Franicevic - Branko Horvat - Selected Bibliography - Ideas and Ideals: Horvat's Contributions to Twentieth Century Economic and Social Theory; H.M.Wachtel - Individual Initiative, Entry and Economic Democracy; J.Vanek - Egalitarianism On Its Own; S.Bowles & H.Gintis - Determinants of Cross-Country Income Inequality: An Augmented Kuznets' Hypothesis; B.Milanovic - Illyrian Theories of Cooperative Rent Sharing and Their Application in Real Life; D.Dubravcic - Employee Participation in Enterprise Control and Returns: Patterns, Gaps and Discontinuities; M.D.Nuti - Employee Involvements and the Modern Firm; T.Petrin & A.Vahcic - Emergence and Disappearance of Market Socialism and Yugoslavia; J.Mencinger - Self-Management, Employee Ownership and Transition; S.Estrin - Privatization and Enterprise Performance: Evidence from Estonia; D.Jones & N.Mygind - The Inequality and Growth Link in Economics in Late Stages of Transition; I.Bicanic - Index