The Moneywasting Machine - Five Months Inside Serbia's Ministry of Economy (Hardcover)

For five months in 2013-2014, Dusan Pavlovic 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 Pavlovic found in Serbia is acutely symptomatic of many other European post-communist regimes of our time, lending his book singular importance.

General

Imprint:	Central European University Press
Country of origin:	Hungary
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Dusan Pavlovic (Professor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-963-386-425-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
LSN:	963-386-425-9
Barcode:	9789633864258

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