Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17234/RadoviZHP.55.27
A Case Study of Branko Horvat’s Intellectual Development, 1948-1951 (Summary)
Petar Markuš
orcid.org/0000-0002-7590-8385
Sažetak
Economist Branko Horvat is mostly known for his later works (for example his magnum opus Political Economy of Socialism from 1982, which earned him a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1983) and his public engagement in which he critiqued economic, social and political problems in the former socialist Yugoslavia. However, it is the author’s belief that Horvat’s mature work can be better understood by examining his earlier thought and seeing how his views on the theory and problems of socialist societies changed during his early years of development as an economist and intellectual. During the aforementioned period, he studied Marx and other Marxist writers and, through their analysis, attempted to interpret what Marxism is and how it differs from the proclaimed Soviet and Yugoslav interpretations. During his studies, Horvat would be expelled from the Communist Party of Croatia due to his support for a colleague who was convicted for adhering to the Cominform’s decisions, his own personality (impulsivity and refusal to accept criticism), and questioning Prof. Rudolf Bićanić’s invitation for him to teach at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. The aim of this article is to present the intellectual development of Horvat’s early thought during his studies in Zagreb from 1948 to 1951 during the Tito-Stalin split. We will see how this schism was reflected in the economic thought of the young Horvat using archival sources from his diary entries, party documents and the student economic papers that he wrote in the period from 1948 to 1951, for which he received awards as the top student at the University of Zagreb.
Ključne riječi
Branko Horvat, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, Marxism, economic thought, case study
Hrčak ID:
316296
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Datum izdavanja:
20.4.2024.
Posjeta: 60 *