Dušan Pavlović (economist)

Dušan Pavlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Павловић; born 10 April 1969) is a Serbian political economist, political analyst, author, and former politician. He is a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade.

Dušan Pavlović
Душан Павловић
A photograph of Dušan Pavlović in 2017
Pavlović in 2017
Member of the National Assembly
In office
2 June 2016 – 13 November 2018
Personal details
Born (1969-04-10) 10 April 1969 (age 55)
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyDJB (2014–2018)
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
Occupation
  • Economist
  • professor
Other offices
  • 5 November–13 November 2018: President of the PMBD parliamentary group

Pavlović previously worked at the G17 Institute. He was an advisor to Saša Radulović during his tenure as minister of economy, from 2013 to 2014. He later co-founded Enough is Enough, a neoliberal populist[1] organisation. He was elected member of the National Assembly of Serbia in 2016 and served until his resignation in 2018.

Early life and education

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Pavlović was born on 10 April 1969 in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[2] He moved with his mother to Belgrade in 1981. Between 1989 and 1994, while a student in Belgrade, Pavlović was a founder member of doo-wop band Vampiri.[3] He played a rhythm guitar.[3]

He received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade in 1994, and master and PhD degrees from the Central European University in Budapest in 1997 and 2003, respectively.[4] Since 2005, he has taught political economy with public choice at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade, where he currently holds the title of a professor.[5] His areas of interest are political economy of democratic institutions, and rational and public choice theory.[4][6]

Career

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Research

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Between 1996 and 2005, he worked at the Institute for European Studies (1996–2001), the G17 Institute (2001–2003), and the Jefferson Institute in Belgrade (2004–2005).[2][4] His academic works include Consolidation of Democratic Institutions in Serbia after 2000 (2007), Writings in Political Economy (2010),[6][7] and Game Theory: Basic Games and Applications (2014). He authored a number of articles in Politika, Danas,[8] Vreme[9] and other newspapers from 2001 to 2013.[10] He had a blog on public policy and theoretical issues, named Political Blogonomy.[11]

Politics

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Between September 2013 and January 2014, Pavlović was an advisor to the minister of economy, position held by his friend Saša Radulović, in the government dominated by Aleksandar Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party.[12] When Radulović resigned after falling out with Vučić, Pavlović did the same. Together, they formed neoliberal populist[1] Enough is Enough movement, advocating the changes in Serbian political culture and the break-up of political cartels in Serbia, which has eventually raised to the level of a political party. In the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, the movement won 6% of the popular vote and 16 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. Pavlović, who was second on the list, became a member of the National Assembly on 2 June 2016.[13]

Pavlović left Enough is Enough on 1 November 2018, and submitted the resignation to the Serbian Assembly on 13 November 2018.[14][15] From 5 November until his resignation, he headed the Politics Should be Different parliamentary group.[16]

Money Wasting Machine

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In April 2016, he published a book titled Mašina za rasipanje para. Pet meseci u ministarstvu privrede for the publisher Dan Graf, which is half-theoretical, half-biographical account of the five months he spent as an advisor to the minister of economy, Saša Radulović. The book sold 1,000 copies within less than two months. Dan Graf added another 1,000 copies in mid-June 2016. The third updated edition in another 600 copies came out in October 2018 with the new chapter on neoliberalism in Serbia. The CEU Press printed the English version of this book in Summer 2022.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b Stojiljković, Zoran; Spasojević, Dušan (2018). "Populistički Zeitgeist u "proevropskoj" Srbiji". Politička misao: Časopis za politologiju (in Serbian). 55 (3): 117. doi:10.20901/pm.55.3.04. S2CID 166171942 – via Hrčak.
  2. ^ a b "Dušan Pavlović". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Raspevani politikolozi". Danas. 24 June 2009.
  4. ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Dušan Pavlović. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Душан Павловић – Факултет политичких наука | Универзитет у Београду" (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Authors: Dušan Pavlović". Hungarian Review.
  7. ^ "Душан Павловић". "Dosta je Bilo" movement. 30 May 2016.
  8. ^ Dušan Pavlović (3 May 2016). "Mnogo privatizovanih preduzeća završilo je u stečaju". Danas.
  9. ^ Dušan Pavlović (20 March 2014). "Večera sa Stros-Kanom". Vreme.
  10. ^ "Books". Dušan Pavlović. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  11. ^ "Politička blogonomija". Dušan Pavlović. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Pet meseci u Ministarstvu privrede - Glava 6". Personal website. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  13. ^ "Kandidati za poslanike 2016: Izborna lista DOSTA JE BILO – SAŠA RADULOVIĆ". Vreme. 10 April 2016.
  14. ^ "Dušan Pavlović napustio pokret Dosta je bilo - Politika - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 2 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Dušan Pavlović, Jasmina Nikolić i Ratko Jankov vraćaju poslanički mandat". Novi magazin (in Serbian). 11 November 2018.
  16. ^ TV, Insajder (5 November 2018). "Raspala se poslanička grupa DJB - pet poslanika u "Politika mora biti drugačija", u DJB samo Radulović i Stamenković". insajder.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  17. ^ "The Moneywasting Machine". CEUPress. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
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