Economic ideas of Mirko Kosić

• Main Author: Mijatović Boško
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade 2012-01-01
• Series: Sociološki Pregled
• Subjects: economics; society; social question; capitalism; liberalism; socialism; Mirko Kosić
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2012/0085-63201202163M.pdf

This article presents and analyses the main economic ideas of Mirko Kosic (1892-1956), probably the most prominent Serbian sociologist before World War II. Kosic was an educated economist and has written noticeably on economic issues. The author's main conclusions are the following: (1) Kosić belonged to the Younger Historical School of economics since he believed in the necessity of accentuating the moral element in economic study, (2) he wrote primarily on the most global issues (choice of political and social system, social justice, history of economic doctrines), so his economic work to a large extent belongs to political philosophy and (3) his affection was, at least in his younger years, turned towards the 'third way', social reformism that would lead to a non-Marxist type of socialism, although he remained quite vague on what a just society would actually look like, who would change the capitalist system and how it would be carried out.