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,...

It is “mainstream” to say that the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) lead to the liberalization of the member states’ economies. Even “old school” pro free trade authors, known nowadays rather as being “against the tide” for promoting unilateral...

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...

Adoptarea euro intr-un stat membru al Uniunii Europene este grevata de necesitatea respectarii, intre altele, poate chiar in primul rand, a unor criterii de natura bugetar-fiscala care, implicit, limiteaza spatiul de manevra al guvernelor nationale. Cel putin in ultimii patru ani, indisciplina...

In this paper we will briefly comment on the political philosophy (that is, considering the relationship among various types of normative judgments – as those of moral, ethic, legal nature) and on the political economy (that is a critique of interventionist policies, in a means-ends...

This paper starts from the faith and conviction that the intellectual adventured in the social sciences who is not supported by a logically consistent and naturally realistic (political) “philosophy”, a logically consistent and naturally realistic “ethics”, will enter “unarmed” the...

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...

Planet Earth, with its plethora of natural (im)balances, has a venerable age of 4.54 billion years; the (industrial) imprint placed by the human species on it, considered to be not negligible, counts of just little over two centuries; while the digital/IT&C/virtual existence of man, in what we...