This 1973 posthumous publication of Rudolf Bi ani 's last work on the Yugoslav economy is a fitting tribute to a great Yugoslav of the pre-war era, who survived the revolution and made a notable contribution to the new Yugoslavia. Bi ani was a man of broad learning, equally at home as a geographer, an economist and a political scientist, who was also a man of affairs. His book provides a lucid survey of the economic development of Yugoslavia from 1918 to the 1970s. Bi ani discusses the three planning models used in post-war Yugoslavia - the centralized (1947 1951), the decentralized (1952...