• Publisher: *cf.
• 258 pages
• Author: Ana Podvršič
• Original title: Iz socializma v periferni kapitalizem: neoliberalizacija Slovenije

Following Latin America and European dependency debates, the book analyses the Slovenian economy in the last four decades and its integration into the European Union after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. To understand how the neoliberalisation of the world economy has impacted the country’s development and how the self-management heritage shaped the country’s specific trajectory on the European post-socialist periphery, the analysis puts into interplay the changing domestic power relationships, fundamental institutional arrangements, state macroeconomic policies, and international economic integration. The book shows that during the two recent debt crises and their management – in the time of the Yugoslav crisis (in the 1980s) and the Eurozone crisis (after 2008) – the importance of domestic capital diminished, at the same time as the Slovenian state’s capacities to influence domestic economic flows and sustain social compromises weakened. The book provides an original insight into the processes of the country’s independence and its development within the European integrations. The book looks into recent history to better understand the challenges we face today and offers guidelines to act in the present debt crisis.

About the author

Ana Podvršič

Ana Podvršič (1984) obtained a PhD in sociology and economy from the University of Ljubljana and the University Paris-13 – Villetaneuse in 2018. She was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Graz, and is currently a lecture at the University of Graz. In 2020, she received the Slovenian Sociological Association award for her research in sociology.