American Economist Behind the Iron Curtain: John Kenneth Galbraith in Socialist Yugoslavia

Cvetković, Emilija (2023) American Economist Behind the Iron Curtain: John Kenneth Galbraith in Socialist Yugoslavia. Annual of Social History, 30 (2). pp. 41-67. ISSN 0354-5318

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the relationship between socialist Yugoslavia and the American economist, intellectual, and political figure John Kenneth Galbraith. The research is based on the analysis of archival materials, periodicals, travelogues, and Galbraith’s works translated in Yugoslavia. Galbraith’s first visit to Yugoslavia in 1958 was an integral part of his study visit to Poland, financed by the Ford Foundation. Based on the travelogue Galbraith wrote after his trip, the article analyzes the picture of the Yugoslav society in the 1950s and its transformation, looking into the period until the economist’s second visit in 1989. Finally, through mapping the published monographs, this article analyzes the reception of Galbraith’s work in socialist Yugoslavia.

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