This paper aims to shed light on the following issues: country-specific/country cluster-specific approaches to competitiveness; alternative routes to competitiveness, relying either on national strategies or business endeavour or both; instrument types – institutions and policies – as well...

Modelul german e descris cu nedisimulata mândrie drept economie sociala de piata. Soziale Marktwirtschaft- ul german s-a cladit în timp pe un larg consens popular, a carui expresie pe scena politica a reprezentat-o duopolul format din social-democrati (SPD) si crestin democrati (CDU), care în...

It is often argued that while ambitious and expensive social spending was in the past compatible with competitiveness, ongoing globalisation makes the reconciliation of EU social and economic goals more difficult. Lisbon addicted at the level of discourse, Europe is still performing unevenly,...

At the beginning of the 80’s one South American dictator had discovered economic freedom, while Europe’s democracies were refining the Bismarckian objective of intergeneration dependency. Enlightened by the economist José Piñera, an unknown figure at the time, he had realized that pensions...

The fallibility of the “efficiency” concept as developed by the neoclassical economists (in a non-personal and non-subjective perspective) laid the foundations for an allegedly objective and value-free – but, de facto, a meaningless, nonrealistic and arbitrary – perspective on...

A proven fact though is that an “economic crisis” is also an “intellectual crisis” in the economists tribe. For almost a century economists didn’t manage to reach a consensus on the final cause and perfect answer to such economic troubles. Mainstreamers say there is neither bubble nor...