Konstantin "Kosta" Cukić (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин Коста Цукић; 1826 – 1879) was an economist and minister of finance and education in the government of Prince Mihailo Obrenović.
[1] At the end of the nineteenth century, he was one of several men who stood out in Serbia in economic thought, alongside Kosta Cukić,[who?]
His father, Petar Lazarević, was the son-in-law of the Duke of the First Serbian Uprising, Pavle Cukić, a member of the Assembly, the highest legislative and governing body in Serbia.
[3] He then moved to Heidelberg and completed his "philosophical and sociopolitical sciences" with Professor Karl Heinrich Rau and earned his Ph.D.
He managed to complete his three-volume work entitled "State Economics" where he mentioned the works of the following philosopher-economists: Adam Smith, Léon Say, John Ramsay McCulloch, Hermann Lotze, Antoine Gustave Droz, Pellegrino Rossi, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Nicolas François Canard, Yves Guyot, and others.