Elvira NICA, Gheorghe H. POPESCU, Adina Teodora PAŞA - Public Policies on Economic Education: What Can We Learn from the European Union Best Practices?

Bianca-Georgiana PETRE - Reform of the EU Cohesion Policy in the Context of the New 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework: A Study on the Post-2020 Prospects of Central and Eastern European Interdependence

Narciz BĂLĂŞOIU - Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Trends in the Post-Pandemic World [Tendinţe geoeconomice şi geopolitice în lumea post-pandemie]

Vlad EPURESCU - The Disruptive Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Dynamics of EU Macroeconomic Indicators and on Essential Supply Chains

George-Eduard GRIGORE - “The Blue Economy” – The Phoenix of the Present Times. Implications on Current Problems of Mankind

Radu ISAIC - Analysis of Economic Cycles in Kondratieff’s Long Cycle Theory and in Bejan’s Constructal Theory

Revista ŒCONOMICA - Book Notes / Semnal editorial: Cezar Mereuță et al., Lumi paralele. Pandemia din 2020 versus economia mondială, Bucureşti, Editura AGIR, 2021

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“Economia comparată” reprezintă o sintagmă populară, aflându-se într-o continuă prefacere a uneltelor şi primenire a temelor. Economia comparată tradiţională, conexată “dezbaterii calculului economic în socialism” (a anilor 1930), s-a dedicat studierii cadrelor în care piaţa sau planul livrează mai multă eficienţă. Comparaţia privea marile sisteme: piaţa liberă / capitalismul (ideal, nu şi utopic), socialismul (utopic, sever rupt de vreun ideal) şi intervenţionismul (ca stare reală, dar în esenţă un hibrid fundamental instabil, care mai degrabă preia neajunsurile ingredientelor sale pure decât le reconciliază sau le optimizează).
“Noua economie comparată”, post-1989, s-a setat pe explicarea performanţelor inegale ale “modelelor de capitalism” (de fapt, de intervenţionism) experimentate de diferitele ţări. Premisa este că fiecare economie capitalistă are un mix de instituţii publice şi private, servind selectării liderilor politici, rezolvării disputelor de proprietate, (re)distribuirii bogăţiei, guvernării firmelor. Ce nu a reuşit, opinez, acest nou comparatism este punctarea neechivocă a faptului că exercitarea coerciţiei dincolo de forţarea respectării libertăţii şi proprietăţii şi demon(et)izarea auto-reglementării contractuale sunt, instituţional, nesustenabile.

“COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS” – A TRIADIC PERSPECTIVE [“ECONOMIA COMPARATĂ” – O PERSPECTIVĂ TRIADICĂ]

The main objective of this article is to analyse the public policies in the area of economic education in the European Union, with the aim to identify the best practices and to point out the major phases and the main factors in the development of this domain. The core assumption is that the wealth of countries is associated with the individual level of economic education of their citizens.

Keywords: public policy, institutional framework, economic and financial education, economic development

JEL: A21, I28, O52

Public Policies on Economic Education: What Can We Learn from the European Union Best Practices?

Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, Cohesion Policy, innovation, interdependence, reform

JEL: F02, H61, O10

Reform of the EU Cohesion Policy in the Context of the New 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework: A Study on the Post-2020 Prospects of Central and Eastern European Interdependence

The COVID-19 pandemic can be defined as a “black swan” because it disrupted the economic model known and adopted almost worldwide, changing both production processes and consumption patterns, as well as mankind living habits. For instance, this led to increased digitalization in day-to-day activities, starting from the interaction between the state and its citizens to that within enterprises and households.

Keywords: COVID-19, economic trends, power shifts, China, US, global order

JEL: F00, F01, F02

Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Trends in the Post-Pandemic World [Tendinţe geoeconomice şi geopolitice în lumea post-pandemie]

As evidence shows, in the early stages of the current pandemic, medical services were overwhelmed by the large number of COVID-19 cases that far exceeded both initial predictions and logistic capacity. In order to decelerate and contain the spread of the virus, the European Union, much the same as all other great economic powers, attempted to provide a symmetrical response.

Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, macroeconomic disequilibrium, The Recovery and Resilience Facility, supply chains, Green Deal, climate change

JEL: F00, F40, F45

The Disruptive Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Dynamics of EU Macroeconomic Indicators and on Essential Supply Chains

Starting from the well-established notion that man is a being that lives in a society and the fact that his needs are unlimited in relation to the available resources, this paper focuses on the increasingly overwhelming decrease of the rooted tension between those two fundamental concepts in economics by identifying credible and promising solutions, emphasizing the alternative of the “blue economy”.

Keywords: blue economy, natural resource efficiency, innovation, sustainable development, natural management

JEL: P18, P28, Q01, Q26, Q55, Q56

“The Blue Economy” – The Phoenix of the Present Times. Implications on Current Problems of Mankind

Academic discourse has recently seen an increase in its attention to the emergence of a new crisis. As usual, every well-known economist, university professor and researcher attempts to make theoretical or practical arguments about how a hypothetical crisis unfolds and to identify its possible underlying causes. The desire for notoriety pushes economists to random expectations.

Keywords: long cycles, flow systems, Nicolai Kondratieff, Adrian Bejan, evolution

JEL: A12, B30, B52

Analysis of Economic Cycles in Kondratieff’s Long Cycle Theory and in Bejan’s Constructal Theory

Cine ar fi crezut că tocmai cele mai puternice ţări de pe planetă, care au investit cel mai mult în sistemele lor de sănătate, au înregistrat cele mai multe cazuri de contaminare cu noul coronavirus? O analiză a unei echipe coordonate de profesorul Cezar Mereuţă dezvăluie această corelaţie aparent contraintuitivă. Şi vine cu o perspectivă nouă: pandemia joacă rolul unei lumi paralele.

Book Notes / Semnal editorial: Cezar Mereuță et al., Lumi paralele. Pandemia din 2020 versus economia mondială, Bucureşti, Editura AGIR, 2021

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