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Economic History and Theory Department

Department Mission

The Economic History and Theory Department integrates heterodox economic theories and historical research. The focus is on the business and energy history of Yugoslavia, technology transfer, nuclear energy, and the green transition,. Our methodologies, such as cliometrics and time-series analysis, enable quantitative insights into economic processes over time. In parallel, qualitative analyses of historical and contemporary sources enable a broader social contextualisation of the observed phenomena, which makes our Department unique. Our primary goal is to generate knowledge that contributes to the academic community, public policy makers, and society as a whole.

Key Research Areas

1. Economic history and business history. We explore economic development over time, with a particular focus on socialist Yugoslavia, the history of enterprises, and industrial development.
2. Energy history and the green transition. We analyse the history and dynamics of the energy sector in Yugoslavia and Serbia, including the development of nuclear energy and contemporary energy challenges. Our research also covers the green transition, investments in lithium, the mining sector, and environmental protection issues in the Western Balkans.
3. Heterodox economic theories and decolonial studies. Our theoretical research includes post-growth economics, ecological economics, political and social ecology, feminist economics, evolutionary economics, and institutional economics.

Strategic Importance and Context

The Department’s research is particularly relevant for understanding economic processes in Serbia and the region, which face the challenges of a small open economy, post-socialist transition, technological change, and demographic trends. The analysis of historical development models, energy policies, and socio-economic transformations provides a critical framework for advising public policies and long-term planning.

Research Applicability and Impact

Our results have a multi-layered impact: on public policies – through historical and contemporary insights relevant to energy, industrial development, sustainability, and environmental protection; on the academic community – through interdisciplinary studies that link economic history, theory, and applied economics; and on the wider community and professional audiences – by creating space for debates on sustainability, the green transition, and alternative economic strategies.

Core Department Activities

The Department organises and implements the publication of scientific publications and edited volumes, the organisation of conferences, seminars, and professional meetings, participation in international and national projects and conferences, the development of digital tools for economic history research, and cooperation with universities, institutes, public institutions, and the business sector.

Department members

Selected references

  1. Miljković, M. (2022). Kitchen without the Debate: The Yugoslav Exhibition of Consumer Goods in Moscow, 1960. Tokovi istorije: časopis Instituta za noviju istoriju Srbije, 3/2022, 119-144.
  2. Aleksić, V. (2021). From Affiliation to Nazification, The Political Destiny of a ‘Grossbank’ in Yugoslavia 1918-1945. Belgrade: Institute of Economic Sciences.
  3. Andric, V., & Nenadovic, S. (2021). Laplace, Hansen-Sargent and Beveridge-Nelson-a note towards unified business application. Serbian Journal of Management, 16 (1), 39-47.
  4. Cvetković, E. (2021). Novi oblici ekonomske saradnje sa inostranstvom i(li) samoupravljanje: Institucionalni okviri zajedničkih ulaganja u Jugoslaviji tokom 1967. i 1968. godine. [New forms of economic cooperation with foreign countries and (or) self-management: Institutional frameworks of joint ventures in Yugoslavia during 1967 and 1968] In Minović, J., Kočović De Santo, M., Matković, A. (eds.), Značaj institucionalnih promena u ekonomiji Srbije kroz istoriju [The importance of institutional changes in the economy of Serbia throughout history] (212-232). Beograd: Institut ekonomskih nauka.
  5. Kočović, M. Aleksić, V. (2020). Silk Production as a Silk Roads Imported Industrial Heritage to Europe: The Serbian Example. U Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini (eds.) Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads, A Contemporary Reading of Urban Transformation of Historic Cities in the Middle East and Beyond. Springer.
  6. Cvetković, E., Matković, A. (2020). Rađanje jedne istoriografije: nasleđe Komisije za ekonomsku istoriju Jugoslavije [The birth of a historiography: the legacy of the Commission for the Economic History of Yugoslavia]. In: Izazovi izučavanja ekonomske istorije u Srbiji [Challenges of studying economic history in Serbia]. (197-223). Beograd: Institut ekonomskih nauka.
  7. Miljković, M. (2019). Nuclear Yutopia: The Outcome of the First Nuclear Accident in Yugoslavia, 1958. U Marsha Siefert (ed.) Labor History in State Socialist Europe after 1945: Contributions to a History of Work, 273-306. Budapest: Central European University Press.
  8. Andric, V., Arsic, M., & Nojkovic, A. (2016). Public debt sustainability in Serbia before and during the global financial crisis. Economic Annals, XVI (210), 47-78.

Selected projects

  1. International reserch project „Transnational Families, Farms and Firms: Migrant Entrepreneurs in Kosovo and Serbia since the 1960s“ (TraFFF)“, led by Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) from Regensburg
  2. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Research Consortium: Re-writing the Constitutional History of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), University of Southampton, Carnegie Corporation of New York (Dr. Marko Miljković, member of the research consortium 2020-2023)
  3. Project EPICA (Empowering Participation in Culture and Architecture), supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Dr. Milica Kočović De Santo, member of the research team, 2020-2023)
  4. COST 19129, MC for Serbia, Decolonizing development, teaching, research practice (Dr. Milica Kočović De Santo, member of the research team, 2021-2022)
  5. Decolonizing Degrowth – beyond the Eurocentric Western nature of conceptualizations and movements, University of Łódź, Poland (Dr. Milica Kočović De Santo, member of the project team that emerged through networking from COST 19129, 2021-2022)
  6. Center for American Studies (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade), Američka istorija u učionici: američki uticaji na popularnu kulturu i svakodnevicu u Srbiji (1918-1941) [American History in the Classroom: American Influences on Popular Culture and Everyday Life in Serbia (1918-1941)], (MA Emilija Cvetković, researcher and author of texts in the publication, October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022)
  7. enter for American Studies (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade), Američka istorija u učionici: amerikanizacija Srbije u hladnom ratu [American History in the Classroom: Americanization of Serbia during the Cold War], (MA Emilija Cvetković, researcher since October 1, 2022)
  8. Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, History and Public Policy Program, The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project, Carnegie Corporation of New York (Dr. Marko Miljković, active member of the international network of researchers since 2015)