ABSTRACT
In this study, I attempt to isolate social variables associated with low productivity and low investment in Yugoslav agriculture. The analysis thus deals with a practical economic problem, and one that is singled out as crucial by Yugoslav writers on the subject (see, for instance, Bakarić, 1960, and Kardelj, 1959, 1962); it is not, however, an analysis of the complexities of the Yugoslav economy, since I would say that an extended study of the purely economic variables in a completely monetized, increasingly industrialized economy is not the task of an anthropologist or a sociologist.
