He was highly critical of the economic policy of the Franjo Tuđman government (as he was before of the communist).
[4] A democratic socialist, he advocated a model of market socialism, dubbed the Illyrian model, where firms were owned and self-managed by their workers and competed with each other in open and free markets.
Horvat organized a Balkan Conference with the primary aim of restoring cooperation between Yugoslav forces.
[6] His most widely known study is The Political Economy of Socialism (published in 1982 in English, in 1984 in Croatian, and in 2001 in Chinese).
[7] Branko Horvat's wife, Ranka Peašinović, was a professor at the University of Zagreb.