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The two distinct systems of socialist Albania and SFR Yugoslavia: A comparative analysis using Kornai?s ?Main Line of Causality?

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This paper compares two peculiar country cases within the former European socialist bloc: Albania and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Based on J?nos Kornai?s ?main line of causality?, we compare the two countries? main char-acteristics from the end of the Second World War until the fall of their socialist re-gimes. The goal of the paper is to demonstrate that the two neighbouring countries had similar political and economic intentions following the Second World War; yet despite this fact the analysed countries? development paths gradually diverged. As a result, the two systems differed fundamentally by the 1970s. Analysing the time-period in question is crucial to understand Albania?s and the successor Yugoslav states? subsequent economic development.

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  • Eszter Kazinczy, 2021. "The two distinct systems of socialist Albania and SFR Yugoslavia: A comparative analysis using Kornai?s ?Main Line of Causality?," HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 10(2), pages 31-51.
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    • E19 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Other
    • N14 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: 1913-
    • N44 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Europe: 1913-

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