Silviu CERNA - Technocracy and Economics [Tehnocraţia şi economia]

Emil DINGA - Now – Why, What, How? [Acum – De ce, ce, cum?]

Ion POHOAŢĂ - The Piketty-ism – a Childhood Illness for the 21st Century [Pikettismul – boala copilăriei în secolul XXI]

Dumitru BELDIMAN, Oana Maria STEPAN - The Cohesion Policy of the European Union and Its Role in the Development of Romania [Politica de coeziune a Uniunii Europene şi rolul acesteia asupra dezvoltării României]

Dragoş Constantin SANDA - Shifting Paradigm in Economic Development – Romanian Progress in the Exploitation of RES in the Context of EU 2020 Strategy [Mişcarea paradigmelor în dezvoltarea economică – progresele României în contextul Strategiei UE 2020]

Alexandra Luana SMĂRĂNDOIU (SANDA) - Green Labour Market: A Response to Environmental Modernization. EU Case [Piaţa verde a muncii: un răspuns la modernizarea ecologică. Cazul UE]

Dan SMEDESCU, Adelina IVANOV, Elisabeta IOANĂŞ, Andreas FRUTH - Service Quality Models for Higher Education: A Review [Modele de calitate în servicii pentru învăţământul superior: o analiză]

Mihai-Vladimir TOPAN - Scolarization or Education? [Şcolarizare sau educaţie?]

Articles on Issue Theme

Guvernarea este un summum de acţiuni de diciplinare şi autodisciplinare a puterii, exercitate într-o porţiune organizată de societate, care porneşte de la familie, trib, comunitate locală, regională sau naţională şi merge până la organizaţiile de organizaţii, transfrontaliere şi multijurisdicţionale, totul în ambientul unor constrângeri date de limitarea mijloacelor relativ la năzuinţe. Este deopotrivă politică şi economie. Ea emană din capriciul şi pronia zeilor (teocraţie) sau din fierul şi focul armelor războinicilor (plutocraţie), din forţa disproporţionată, nebalansată, a unui personaj singular (autocraţie) sau din iluzia agregării voinţei vulgului (democraţie), din privilegii nobiliare ereditare, edictate monarhic (aristocraţie) sau din privilegiul de a ocupa oficii publice autoimune social (birocraţie). Nou-venită la masa “puterilor”, tehnocraţia se recomandă ca infuzie de ştiinţă şi distilat de conştiinţă, un exerciţiu impersonal întru bună vieţuire interpersonală.

THE TREATMENT OF GOVERNANCE [TRATAMENTUL CÂRMUIRII]

Technocracy is considered a government system where decisions are being adopted in a rational and disinterested way. Technocracy is not only about the making of decisions, but also in the exercise of power in various fields, policies and programs. Technocracy operates as an element of power structures and the technocrats are not only experts offering rational disinterested technical solutions.

Keywords: democracy, economy, politics, technocrats, technocracy

JEL: E52, E58, E61, E62

Technocracy and Economics [Tehnocraţia şi economia]

As a necessary social human being, man has always had as behaviour vehicle the (formal or informal) institution. Here, by institution we understand a supporting model for behaviour, which can be a universal norm, an instruction, a rule, a regularity, a certain principle etc. If large masses of individuals have to be coagulated and convergently and coherently targeted on a temporally extensive path.

Keywords: human behaviour, rationalization, institution, institutional mechanisms

JEL: E02, O15

Now – Why, What, How? [Acum – De ce, ce, cum?]

Thomas Piketty is a prolific French socialist economist. With insatiable appetite for the issue of economic performance status, he has and will have significant audience. Books about pension regime, taxes, inequality, economic and social justice, origins and future of mankind etc. sell well. Well it will sell his best-seller, Capital in the 21st Century. And it will sell, because those he addressees are not few.

Keywords: wealth, income distribution, inequality, economic and social project

JEL: D31, D63, H21

The Piketty-ism – a Childhood Illness for the 21st Century [Pikettismul – boala copilăriei în secolul XXI]

Quoting Sir Winston LS Churchill, “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”, we tried an analysis of the influence the cohesion policy of the EU has on Romania’s development. We took account of the specific literature, of the existing economic theories and legal framework, the result being directed to discovering – rather than on confirming or denying – hypotheses.

Keywords: European Union, euro area, EMU, convergence

JEL: F02, F15, F33, F45

The Cohesion Policy of the European Union and Its Role in the Development of Romania [Politica de coeziune a Uniunii Europene şi rolul acesteia asupra dezvoltării României]

Within the environmental sociology field there is a debate focused on the causes, consequences and future steps for the society in terms of various environmental issues, especially global climate change. Global warming, ozone rarefaction, fading biodiversity, rampant deforestation or large urban areas living conditions deterioration require international concerted efforts.

Keywords: environmental modernization, EU 2020 Strategy, transition, RES

JEL: F64, H23, O13, O44

Shifting Paradigm in Economic Development – Romanian Progress in the Exploitation of RES in the Context of EU 2020 Strategy [Mişcarea paradigmelor în dezvoltarea economică – progresele României în contextul Strategiei UE 2020]

The attitude towards environmental issues can represent a key differentiating factor among countries’ performance levels, considering the tight competitive climate. On its way to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy, through social and economic integration, EU continues to face great proportion of social imbalances and wider inequalities.

Keywords: sustainability, employment, environment, European Union

JEL: F6, Q20, Q50

Green Labour Market: A Response to Environmental Modernization. EU Case [Piaţa verde a muncii: un răspuns la modernizarea ecologică. Cazul UE]

The higher education sector is highly dynamic and suffers constant changes over time. The quality of services offered in this sector is a feature of utmost importance, being the main reason why students choose a certain university. Seeing how much individuals value service quality, researchers have been trying for a long time to understand the main factors having the capacity to influence perception.

Keywords: service quality models, higher education

JEL: I23, L80

Service Quality Models for Higher Education: A Review [Modele de calitate în servicii pentru învăţământul superior: o analiză]

John Taylor Gatto is known primarily as a severe critic of the modern systems of public education – provided compulsorily by the state –, especially in his main works: “Dumbing Us Down” (1992), “The Underground History of American Education” (2000) or “Weapons of Mass Instruction” (2009). Less discussed are his constructive proposals about education “as it should be”.

Keywords: public schooling, private schooling

JEL: I23, L80

Scolarization or Education? [Şcolarizare sau educaţie?]

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