Equality, Participation, Transition

A collections of essays in honour of Branko Horvat, an economist and social thinker of great international reputation from former Yugoslavia and nowadays Croatia. The essays deal with themes related to Horvat's own work, namely equality, social justice, employee participation, labour management, systemic change, privatization, and growth.

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IVO BICANIC Professor, Faculty of Economics, Zagreb SAMUEL BOWLES Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst DINKO DUBRAVCIC Fulbright Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University (1986) SAUL ESTRIN Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean, London Business School HERBERT GINTIS Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst DEREK C. JONES James L. Ferguson Professor of Economics, Hamilton College, New York BRANKO MILANOVIC Principal Economist, World Bank Research Department, and Adjunct Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Baltimore JOZE MENCINGER Professor of Economics, University of Ljubljana NIELS MYGIND Associate Professor and Director, Center for East European Studies, Copenhagen Business School MARIO DOMENICO NUTI Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, University of Rome TEA PETRIN Professor of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana ALES VAHCIC Professor of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana JAROSLAV VANEK Faculty of Economics, Harvard and Cornell Universities HOWARD M. WACHTEL Acting Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, American University, Washington, DC BENJAMIN WARD Retired, previously a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley

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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