Branko Horvat

Branko Horvat was born in Petrinja, Croatia. As a boy he participated in the partisan guerrilla against fascist invaders, and was then educated in economics, philosophy and sociology at Zagreb University, London School of Economics and Manchester University, where he took his second doctorate. He toon meer completed his post-doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He held fellowships at Manchester University, Ford Foundation and Fulbright. He has been Chief Methodologist at the Federal Planning Bureau and a Member of the Federal Economic Council. He was Founder and Director of the Institute of Economic Sciences and Founding Editor of Economic Analysis. He was also Founding President of the International Association for the Economics of Participation. He has been adviser to several governments, and guest professor at a dozen universities, including Cambridge, Paris, Michigan, Yale and Berkeley. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. toon minder