Vladimir Gligorov is a researcher at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and a lecturer at the University of Vienna. He was previously associated with Columbia University, Belgrade University, the Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, the Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University and Uppsala University, Sweden. His publications include ‘Residue: essays on the advantages of freedom’ (in Serbian and English, 2010); ‘Why do countries break up: the case of Yugoslavia’ (forthcoming, 2010); ‘Neoclassicism in the Balkans: papers on Balkan economics’ (forthcoming, 2011); ‘Causes, rights and choices’ (forthcoming, 2011).