Pristupačnost
U utorak, 16. ožujka 2021. s početkom u 17:00 sati održat će se Napredni istraživački seminar na kojem će doktorski student Dimitrije Birač održati predavanje na temu Political and economic change in Croatia during breaking years 1989/91. Predavanje na engleskom jeziku održat će se na Zoomu, a možete mu pristupiti putem poveznice ili koristeći Meeting ID: 892 6278 7745 i Password: 1632021.
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Political and economic change in Croatia during breaking years 1989/91
In this lecture I will try to explain various analyses of Croatian economists of the so-called process of transformation and privatization in the 1990s. In recent decades, especially since the first multi-party parliamentary elections in April 1990, the process of political-economic transformation has not only decisively changed the socio-economic structure of Croatia, but also influenced the Croatian polit-economic thought. By reviewing works of Croatian economists, political economists and sociologists, I would like to contribute to the science of political economy with a different approach of studying the process of transformation and privatization. Considerably I develop thesis that the process of transformation and privatization was essentially a restoration of capitalism through so called primary accumulation of capital. What is usually called „wild capitalism“, „cronyism“, and even „tycoon capitalism“ – was in fact a typical course of the emergence and development of peripheral capitalism. Its specific feature is connected with the nation-state which had the role of system-maker as well as the creator of the ruling class, rather than the other way around – that the ruling class had created its own state and economic system. But this rulling class also was a result of a violent and very dinamical political struggle between different factions of bureaucracy (cultural, economic and political). At the same time, I rejected as simplified various conclusions that the transformation and privatization process could have been more just and fair. In the end, I believe that we can better understand the paradox of Croatia starting the process of transformation and privatization as one of the countries with the best possibilities and still finishing as one of the most unsuccessful examples.
Author's profile - Dimitrije Birač
Dimitrije Birač (1987) is a Croatian economist, graduated in the course of economic theory (history of economic thought) on Faculty of Economics & Business. He is currently attending doctoral studies on Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb with subject on making of Croatian political and economic system during groundbreaking years 1989/91. His interests are economic history, history of economic thought, political economy and political theory. Recently published article titled Political Economy of Croatia: Restoration of Capitalism as “Transformation” and “Privatization” (Politička misao, Vol.57, No.3, 2020) and will soon publish (successfully reviewed) another article for Revija za sociologiju titled Transformation of the Political Concept of ‘Transition’ in the Historical Rupture 1989/91 in Croatia.
Currently employed as a coordinator of Archive department of Serbian National Council in Zagreb.
