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Dragoş NEGRESCU
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
The literature devoted to economic development concerns itself in a growing degree with the role and importance of institutions
Keywords: institutions, credibility, economic transition
JEL: D2, K0, O1, P3, Z1
Importanţa credibilităţii pentru dezvoltarea economică. O evaluare a poziţiei României în primul deceniu de tranziţie

Marian MICU
Banca Reglementărilor Internaţionale
This paper tests for the existence of a non-linear pattern in the process of real economic convergence. It uses a sample of 88 countries for the period 1980-1999.
Keywords: economic convergence, education, human capital , non-linear models
JEL: C12, O11, I22
Nelinearităţi în convergenţa reală

Gheorghe MILITARU
Universitatea Politehnică din Bucureşti
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the distinctive characteristics of the competitive mechanism in the digital economy and information product markets. Specific properties of digital goods and information markets are considered.
Keywords: digital economy, internet markets, dispersion price, awareness, infomediaries, e-loyalty, digital product, value chain
JEL: D40, L86, E39
Structura pieţelor şi concurenţa în economia digitală

Victor MANOLE
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
The article approaches the characteristic, the organization, the coordination, the functioning, the mechanism for setting and the results of the channels of the products obtained from sheep: meat, milk and wool in Romania.
Keywords: diversification of products, product’s channel, meat’s channel, milk’s channel, wool’s channel, agro-food integration, mechanism for setting, marketing conception, channels’ performances, specialization of production
JEL: Q13, Q16
Filierele produselor obţinute de la ovine în România

Mariana NICOLAE
Academia Română
Social contributive insurance systems which are based on the repartition principle between generations are strongly influenced by the demographic evolutions.
Keywords: life expectancy, natality, demographic evolution / movement, social insurance
JEL: J10, J13, J21, G23
Impactul creşterii speranţei de viaţă asupra sistemului de asigurări sociale

Cosmin MARINESCU
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti
In economic literature, the competitive advantage’s relevance is still debatable.
Keywords: competitiveness, competitive advantage, comparative advantage, national interest, strategical interest, international competitiveness
JEL: B41, F13, B53
Avantajul competitiv: judecăţi economice şi implicaţii politice

Vasile DOGARU
Universitatea Creştină “Dimitrie Cantemir”
Identification through dialectical and aristhotelic judgments of the concordance between the built analytical reality and the empirical one assures the check of the analytical economicity’s principle.
Keywords: comparative advantage, Manoilescu generalized scheme, algorithms of measurement, the analytical economy’s principle, the interest’s principle, minimum efort, demythification, total productivity, episthemology
JEL: B41, B12, F13
Unele consideraţii privind demitizarea folosirii principiului avantajului comparativ

Emil DINGA
Academia Română
The paper is aimed to derive, on criticism basis (following, especially, the critic rationalism, as method), epistemological suggestions from the crucial work of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, “The Entropy Law and the Economic Process”, in order as these suggestions or challenges constitute ongoing points for further logical assessments or polemical debates.
Keywords: entropy, analytical, arithmomorphic, theoreticity, time arrow, initial conditions, qualitative change, hysteresis, Oedip effect, testability, rationality, falsiability, sustainability
JEL: B41, A12
Modelul entropic al procesului economic – unele aspecte epistemologice

Şerban BROCHE
Academia Română
In this paper we present an alternative bio-epistemological-based approach to economic ethics issues, which suggests that economists need not only an understanding of the ecosystem in terms of irreversibility, but even more, an understanding of the way the process in ecosystem make actual the principle of ameliorative equilibration.
Keywords: social cooperation, biophysical constraints, negentropic process, ameliorative equilibration, vection, cross-disciplinary research
JEL: B59, A11, Q56, Q57
Stăpânirea etică a tehnologiilor inovatoare

Gavril HORJA
The economic theory developed by Marx by the middle of the 19th century, completed with the aberrations of Lenin and Stalin, has lost any sense in our days, remaining a simple utopia. Marx’s thesis, particularly the one about surplus value has become obsolete.
Keywords: failure of Marxism
JEL: B14
Desuetudinea teoriei economice marxiste

Gabriel-Ludovic VINŢE
În prezent, comerţul între entităţile ce fac parte din acelaşi grup multinaţional reprezintă peste 60 la sută din comerţul mondial.
Impactul tehnologiilor informaţiilor şi comunicaţiilor asupra alocării profitului în cadrul corporaţiilor transnaţionale
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Dragoş NEGRESCU
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Marian MICU
Banca Reglementărilor Internaţionale

Gheorghe MILITARU
Universitatea Politehnică din Bucureşti

Victor MANOLE
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Mariana NICOLAE
Academia Română

Cosmin MARINESCU
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Vasile DOGARU
Universitatea Creştină “Dimitrie Cantemir”

Emil DINGA
Academia Română

Şerban BROCHE
Academia Română

Gavril HORJA

Gabriel-Ludovic VINŢE

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