The current crisis has swept the world with special emphasis, most developed countries, those countries which have most gross -product world and you have a high level of living. Even those who are not experts can describe the consequences of the crisis to see the reality that is seen, but how far will it go this crisis is impossible to predict. Even the biggest experts have conjecture and large divergence, but agree on one thing:-The devastating effects of this crisis will be more severe than ever before and can not be predicted. Long time, the world was dominated economic theory of free market laws. With the belief that the market is the regulator of all economic problems. The market, as river water will flow to find the best and will find the necessary solution best. Therefore much less state market barriers, less state intervention and market itself is an economic self regulation.

This article analyses the development and consolidation of an illiberal (or shadow), economy and its connection to political projects in Serbia and Kosovo. Here, some comparative remarks are made over the form of economy and its political connections and implications. In spiteof methodological problems with sources being scarce or of varying quality, the phenomenon ofilliberal economy and its coupling with political projects is too important to be neglected byresearchers. To some extent ’soft sources’ have been accepted here, where hard evidence is lacking.The article argues that the considerable consolidation of illiberal economies in Serbia and Kosovo(as elsewhere in the post-Yugoslav space) have been intimately connected to politics, politicalviolence and conflict in the region, and produced a transformation of wealth and resources. In thismanner the conflicts in the region can be analysed from the perspective of social transformation. Thelatter concept emphasises that the trajectory of social and political change is not necessarily linear,towards liberal democracy and market economy, which is implied in the concepts transition (wherethe end stage is assumed to be liberal democracy and market economy) or social breakdown (whichassumes a possible reconstruction to the norm of a harmonious state).