Tag Archives: Rolul statului
The Romanian economy is almost built around the state budget
Fiscal policy does not need to solve only the quantitative and, often, circumstantial problems of the budget, as it happened, unfortunately, until now, but rather to solve structural, profound problems of the economy. At the same time, in my opinion, structural reforms should mean more than professionalizing the management and cleaning the SOEs sector. Consolidating the
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
The Crisis and Capitalism: from Marx to the “Smart Guys” on Wall Street
The recent crisis brought a new trend in economic and political debates, one according to which it is “cool” to be anti-, anti-market, anti-capitalism, anti-economy. Some kind of paradox of modernity, meaning a popular form of anti-system revolt, although if we take into consideration the “Occupy Wall Street” phenomenon, even only as a simple illustration, it is easy to
What We Did Not Understand from Recession: Time Matters!
During all these years (seems like forever), the recession was described as being a catastrophe, almost like the war. A scourge of the economy that becomes ruinous, especially for the contemporary civilization. However, to clarify this, the recession is not the cause, but only the effect. The recession does not reflect anything else but previous deviations of the economy from its
Syndicalism – (Our) Secret Recipe in Social Europe
A couple of years ago, the front page of news bulletins presented great union demonstrations and manifestations that almost paralyzed iconic cities. We have witnessed, concerned and bewildered, the terrifying show Europe offered to the entire world. The “Bolkestein Directive”, against which tens of thousands of people manifested for months, seemed to become the title of a
