The Making of a New Economic Elite in Serbia
The Making of a New Economic Elite in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: This essay presents analyses of new research data about the economic elite in Serbia: its constitution, main characteristics, and the changes affecting it under the conditions of systemic social transformation. The general analytical framework of this special issue is presented; the essay’s central part offers a brief analysis of the process of sociohistorical change in Serbia in the period from the late 1980s to the present, including the change of bases on which the new economically dominant group and other main social groups have been formed. This period may conditionally be divided into three stages, which do not have sharply defined lines of division: the breakdown of the socialist order (1988-90), followed by a phase of blocked transformation (1991-2000), yielding ultimately to the gradual ‘normalization’ of the functioning of a (semi-)peripheral capitalist order (2000 to present).

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