The Moneywasting Machine : : Five Months Inside Serbia‘s Ministry of Economy / / Dušan Pavlović.
For five months in 2013–2014, Dušan Pavlović took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia’s Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to make a penetrating diagnosis of the economic activity of the postcommunist government. He found that a coterie of tycoons...
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Pavlović, Dušan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Moneywasting Machine : Five Months Inside Serbia‘s Ministry of Economy / Dušan Pavlović. Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (156 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Rise of Aleksandar Vučić -- 2. Overview of the Political Economy of Serbia Prior to 2012 -- 3. Extractive Institutions -- 4. Party Patronage -- 5. The Four Economic Policy Strategies -- 6. Inside the Money-Wasting Machine -- 7. Privatization -- 8. The Exit -- 9. The Resignation -- Major Protagonists of the Book in 2013–2014 -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For five months in 2013–2014, Dušan Pavlović took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia’s Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to make a penetrating diagnosis of the economic activity of the postcommunist government. He found that a coterie of tycoons and politicians live off the wealth of the majority of citizens and smaller entrepreneurs, while the economy performs below its capacities. In academic terms, extractive economic institutions create allocative inefficiency. Vivid, suggestive, and even entertaining accounts depict how privatization is administered and foreign investment projects are handled, and how party members, relatives, and friends are hired into public administration and state-owned companies. They show how the managers of firms that queue for state subsidies resist the systematic screening of their businesses. The principles of Keynesian economics are distorted and misused to conceal deliberate fiscal mismanagement. Huge ill-conceived development projects siphon taxpayers’ money from “non-economic” activities like social services, health, education, science, and culture. What Pavlović found in Serbia is acutely symptomatic of many other European post-communist regimes of our time, lending his book singular importance. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Corruption Serbia. Political corruption Serbia. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy. bisacsh Post-communism. Vucic. economic policies. extraction. hybrid regimes. privatization. state capture. Pavlović, Dušan, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022 9783110780482 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2022 English 9783110994513 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2022 9783110994407 ZDB-23-PLW print 9789633864258 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633864265?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633864265 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633864265/original |
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