Renowned Croatian academician and emeritus professor Ivo Perišin passed away this morning in Zagreb. Ivo Perišin (1925, Kaštel Kambelovac) had been a professor at the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb since 1956. Since 1990, he was a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and he became an honorary emeritus professor in 2005.
He was the recipient of two republic awards for scientific work and several awards from the Faculty of Economics. He held a number of responsible positions, including general director of the National Bank of Yugoslavia – its headquarters for Croatia, state undersecretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia, as well as president of the Executive Council of the Assembly and president of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. Perišin was also the mayor of Split from 1965 to 1967. He published 159 scientific papers and authored 29 books, among which are particularly significant "Global Financial Whirlwind", "Giant Inflation", "Financial Mechanism and Croatian Reality", and the first "Financial Lexicon" in the Croatian language. In 1964, he published the book "Monetary-Credit Policy", which went through ten somewhat revised editions and became a textbook at economic faculties. (H)
