Catherine Samary born in 1945,  is a French researcher in political economy, specialized on the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe. She received her Phd in economics in 1986 : her thesis on the contradictory logics of the reforms in the Yugoslav self-management system was published in 1988 under the title « Le Marché contre l’autogestion - l’expérience yougoslave » (The Market against Self-management : the Yugoslav expérience) with a preface from Ernest Mandel (Ed.
Catherine Samary, a French researcher specializing in political economy and former Yugoslavia/Eastern Europe, received her PhD in economics in 1986. Her dissertation on the contradictory logic of reforms within the Yugoslav self-management system was published in 1988 under the title "The Market against Self-Management: The Yugoslav Experience" with a preface by Ernest Mandel.