US Trade Winds Forum – Romania, 2017
Romania must become a country where success is based on fairness and performance, not on favours and political connections. It is time for Romania to make the step beyond the minimal standards of a functioning market economy. It is time to become a consolidated market economy. In this regard, Romania needs to provide stability and economic policy predictability,
The Paradox of Modernity: Anti-capitalists against the System
The economic crisis opened a new trend in political and economic debates, one in which it is ‘cool’ to be “against”: against the market, against capitalism, against the economy. This is a popular form of revolt against the system although, if we take as example ‘Occupy Wall Street’, it is easy to understand how far from their goal are the anti-capitalists who protest against the system.
Klaus Iohannis – The Launch of the Presidential Program – Speech by Cosmin Marinescu
Today, economic policy tends to involve much politics and little, too little, economics. At the same time, the economy is answering politics with more and more distrust. There exists the fear that, when the government gives you something with one hand, it will come, eventually after elections, and take it with both hands. In my opinion, the main problem is still
Book Launch Event: Capitalism. The Logic of Liberty
Capitalism. The Logic of Liberty was not necessarily built on an economic agenda, although the approach may seem, first of all, an economic one. In fact, the capitalism involves a specific type of society, of order… a natural one. We have tried to write about simple things, fundamental institutions, those that we considered as the ones always representing the basis of prosperity and
Fiscal and Budgetary Responsibility in the Debate about the Fiscal Code
It goes without saying that Romania needs lower taxation, but the proper sequencing is very important, in order not to create vulnerability in the fiscal and budgetary framework. The VAT reduction measure is, of course, desirable. The problem is putting this measure in the same basket with the other ones, and all at once. This all-inclusive approach destroys its own
