Gojko Grđić

Prof. Dr. Gojko Grđić was born in Gacko. Graduated from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in 1931. He received his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Berlin in 1934, where he supported himself by working as a journalist during his studies. He began his university career as an assistant professor in 1939 at the Economic and Commercial College in Belgrade. During the war, he was arrested by the Gestapo. Since 1948, he has been at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade. He was elected full professor in 1954. Before the war, he taught Economic History, and Economic Statistics and Macroeconomic Balances at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. He was head of the Department of Statistics and Dean of the Faculty, and held other positions at the Faculty of Economics.

             He was among the founders of the Yugoslav Statistical Society, a long-time member of its board and its President. He was also the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of "Statistical Review" for a number of years. He was a member of the International Society for the Study of National Income and Social Wealth, as well as a member of the International Statistical Institute. He was also a member of the editorial board of several economic magazines, including "Economist", "Economic Annals" and "Population". He participated in a large number of scientific meetings in the country and abroad.

             The most important works that influenced the development of theory and practice:

             Prof. Grđić published several monographs, studies and textbooks and a large number of articles and announcements at scientific meetings and in economic magazines. His most significant contributions are in the following works: Industrial statistics; Economic history of Europe - known antiquity and the Middle Ages; Development of the economy of Serbia and Vojvodina since liberation from the Turks; National income - methodological study; Basics of economic statistics; Basics of economic statistics with an introduction to demographic statistics (several editions); National income and economic balances; System of national and economic balances; Statistics for Economists (co-author); The economic structure of the SR of Serbia as part of the economic development of Yugoslavia (editor and co-author); Two decades of economic development of SR Serbia; Long-term tendencies of the economic development of Herzegovina until 1941; Macroeconomic balances.

             The most important scientific contributions:

             Prof. Grđić mostly worked in the field of economic history, statistics and macroeconomic balances. He founded economic history at the High School of Economics and Commerce in Belgrade even before the war, and in the post-war period he produced several very notable studies in that field. As head of the department of statistics at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, he contributed a lot to the development of our statistics, and his works are a significant contribution in that field.

             He founded the teaching discipline Macroeconomic Balances at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade and gave that discipline its content and its methodology, which is a very significant contribution to our economic science.

References

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