Јужна Србија и Лесковац на историјској периферији: један социо-економски поглед
Southern Serbia And The City Of Leskovac On The Historical Outskirts: A Socio-Economic Perspective

Summary/Abstract: In this paper a new socio-economic paradigm has been tested on the example of the City of Leskovac in Southern Serbia. The paradigm claims that the system of values in a community can produce different developmental consequences if it is in agreement or in collision with the target function of a social system. The universal validity of this paradigm was tested in the space of one local community. Historical sources about the City of Leskovac, as one of the centres of Southern Serbia migrated toward by its surrounding population, were used to provide a closer insight into socio-economic winding of this region of Serbia through the process of adaptation of the structures of values to different social and historical environments. The typical “disjointed” path of development of the City’s local economy is seen in this paper from a different perspective when analyzed in terms of methodology introduced to the classical economic analysis by Douglass North. Possible causes were found for cyclical ups and downs of the local economy as well as of Southern Serbia as a socio-economic space.

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