ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY AND CONTINUITY OF POWER IN SERBIA Cover Image

EKONOMSKA STRUKTURA DRUŠTVA I KONTINUITET VLASTI U SRBIJI
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY AND CONTINUITY OF POWER IN SERBIA

Author(s): Slobodan Vuković
Subject(s): National Economy, Political economy, Culture and social structure , Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: property; economy; constitutive institutions; privatization; continuity of power;

Summary/Abstract: Topic of the article is continuity of socialist power njith previous communist in Serbia, analysed mostly in its economic aspect. Starting point of the analysis is that one of basic constitutive institution of former social system is social/state property, and economy founded on it is completely remaining in spite of abandoning of communist heritage. Development of private sector could not have important influence on economic structure, for privatization of social property have been hindered by political means. That provide evidence that in the last years in Serbia, in the economic realm, nothing is changed edžcept remarkable fall of national income. For type of socio-economic mediating springs out from the type of property, all social institution and nstruments of command economy are unchanged in the former forms. That means that prevails basic economic structure of former socialist system. Its main trait is that political ponjer suprime organizer and arbitar in economic transaction. Thus, it is evident that after introduction of one type of political pluralism Serbian economy still have command character.

  • Issue Year: 34/2000
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 3-19
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian