The present paper will attempt to explore the argumentation frequently employed in the public discourse – but less in economic theory – by different categories of stakeholders that the exhaustion of world oil reserves will have a dramatic impact on global economic growth and development....

Stock prices move as corporate earnings prospects change, but they also move as investors change their aversion to risk. One of the central tenets of finance is that investors expect higher return for taking risk. They exchange some of their riskless securities for risky assets because they...

Our paper emphasizes the strategic importance of CSR both for companies and society as well. A comprehensive literature review reflects the challenges mainly associated with two different approaches: CSR as a profitable business practice that consolidates a good corporate image, or CSR as an...

Traditionally, the reaction of many mainstream economists to the effort to integrate theology and economics demonstrated the difficulty of doing so in a way that could be broadly recognized as legitimate. This state of things is simply an indication of a broad consensus within the field of...

By its conceptual construction, Europe is the best environment for the proliferation of knowledge and technology based communities and individuals. Creating the appropriate economic and institutional framework that provides incentives for the efficient use of local and global knowledge, that...

“Everything is interconnected”, biological and social existence, economy and religion have common links (Barabasi, 2003). Even though we may consider it to be a truism, only since three decades the formal and informal links between different entities became a research subject. In the 1980s...

Berry Buzan and the Copenhagen School proposed three new dimensions of security in order to complete it’s the narrow political and military components. These are the economic, societal and environmental dimensions. The result is that economic factor came to be considered the building block of...

The objective of this research is assessing the creative industries’ positioning in Romania, regarding the other EU member states. The methodology proposed by Florida and Tinagli (2004) for computing the Euro-Creativity Index is being extended, both by adding new indexes we consider more...

The project of classical science (from Enlightment to the beginning of the 20th century) was to explain all the reality we live in (embedded in space, time, matter and energy) by the reality itself, leaving no space for God. On the contrary, a “new orientation” within the contemporary...