The reforms in Bulgaria – myth and reality. The unsystematic attempts at reforms by the current Bulgarian governments not only do not solve the problems, but exacerbate them, because they do not eliminate the reasons that cause them – they reproduce and validate the status quo instead of...

The book offers a comparative analysis of the process of industrialization and modernization of societies in the two similar Balkan countries, with an emphasis on the economic characteristics of Serbia and Bulgaria. Particular attention is paid to the personal factor in the development of...

The book analyzes how Bulgaria, a highly industrialized economy in the late 1980s, was de-industrialized during its post-communist transition to an open market economy and became a service economy. The greatest disadvantage of a service economy is that it cannot develop and maintain its own...