Jozo Tomasevich

Josip "Jozo" Tomasevich was an American economist and historian, specializing in the economic and social history of Yugoslavia, and professor at San Francisco State University from 1948 to 1973. Tomasevich was born in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of Austria-Hungary, and after graduating high school and attending a commercial academy, he earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Basel in Switzerland. In the mid-1930s, he worked at the National Bank of Yugoslavia in Belgrade and published three well-received books on Yugoslavia's national debt, fiscal policy, and money and credit, respectively.