Radivoj Davidović was born in Novi Bečej in 1909. Before World War II, he was a revolutionary and a member of the Communist Party. During the war, he was an active participant of the People’s Liberation Movement (NOP). After the liberation of Yugoslavia in 1945, he was a member of the Main People’s Liberation Committee of Vojvodina and director of the “Đuro Đaković” High Party School. From 1947, he taught at the High School of Foreign Trade, the High School of Finance, the High School of Journalism and Diplomacy, the Faculty of Economics and Law in Belgrade. From 1952 to 1953, he was the director of the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade. In 1953, he was elected Full professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, where he served as dean from 1958 to 1959. He taught Political Economy at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, the Faculty of Economics in Titograd and the Faculty of Law and Economics in Priština. He was elected as a member of the temporary National Assembly, and then as a member of the National Assembly of FNRJ (Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia). He was a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communist of Serbia and a member of the Central Committee of SUBNOR (Alliance of Fighters of People’s Liberation Wars). He has been awarded a partisan award since 1941, as well as other prestigious Yugoslav awards. As head of the Department of General Economic Theory, Davidović published a textbook – Uvod u političku ekonomiju (1964) and a monograph Cena kao faktor reprodukcije (1964).