Ştiinţa economică regăseşte pe lista preocupărilor (şi) analiza naturii, cauzelor şi efectelor stimulentelor, fie instituţionalizate, continue, fie prezente în instanţe discrete; stimulentele sunt circumstanţe care motivează acţiunea umană. Economiştii sunt de acord că stimulentele pot fi “bune” sau “rele”, iar calificarea vine din contribuţia la producţia de avuţie, una, am adăuga, în rit paretian: creşte producţia de avuţie-proprietate fără a se pierde proprietate. Unul dintre stimulente rele este “hazardul moral”.

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), as a distinctive tool for public investment projects evaluation laying in the portfolio of the governmental authorities, strives to replicate the market in establishing economic standards for the measurement of their success, while the government’s actions are in explicit contradiction with the market test. In this paper, CBA is being scrutinized from two angles.

An innovation system is aimed at developing, diffusing and using innovations. Since a nation or a country represents a relevant level of analysis, the national innovation systems were first considered. However, there can be different types of innovation systems. In order to analyze an innovation system, it is necessary to identify the functions of the respective system.

In the current framework outlined by Eurozone crisis effects, by the high level of debt service starting next year and by the Romanian banking system outlook, our country needs actions and solutions at national level, resorting firstly to domestic resources and to our intellectual ability, solutions which should prove sustainable and rigorous and which should strengthen our domestic and international situation.

It is found that the “Theory of Moves” is adequate in a Cold War scenario, with functionally equal participants, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The destabilization of normal incentive systems, under power and information asymmetry, is what prevents an equilibrium from being reached, as one side (North Korea) overleverages its position, while the other side makes unproductive compromises.