Relaţiile economice româno-moldovene

De ceva timp lucrez la un raport despre relaţiile de comerţ şi investiţii dintre România şi Republica Moldova şi sunt câteva lucruri care m-au surprins în cercetarea pe care am făcut-o. Cum Moldova a fost un subiect fierbinte pe tot parcursul anului 2009 din cauza crizei politice, a protestelor de stradă şi a neaşteptatei victorii în alegeri a necomuniştilor, vă invit să citiţi câteva dintre ele.

Cu surle si trâmbiţe, noii membri Econosofia

Cu mândrie îi anunţăm mai jos pe recruţii econosofişti ai acestui an:

1. Popescu Roxana-Andreea
2. Cernea Mircea-Petre
3. Tiseanu Cătălin
4. Ioan Anca
5. Vasilescu Vlad
6. Zechiu Marian-Alexandru
7. Rîjniţă Valentina Corina
8. Popescu Andreea Victoria
9. Gonţilă Alina-Maria
10. Ţuţui Dorin
11. Dumitru Oana Roxana
12. Niculae Ana-Maria
13. Holban Elena
14. Vulpescu Alina
15. Marin Ionuţ Georgian
16. Costache Dragoş Eduard
17. Petri Radu
18. Todirică Denis-Constantin
19. Guţă Bianca
20. Caiali Metin
21. Sbora Viorel Marian
22. Belu Eva Suzana

Felicitări şi baftă!

Let`s make sense of today’s economy!

ECONOSOFIA. Making sense of today’s economy.

În octombrie, hai să descifrăm tainele economiei!

În Econosofia ai şansa să descoperi oameni cu adevărat pasionaţi de economie, cu spirit polemic, deschişi şi mereu informaţi, ce luptă zilnic cu mediocritatea ce îi înconjoară. Oameni ca tine!

Aplică la Econosofia şi vei intra într-un mediu dinamic în care învăţăm şi ne dezvoltăm constant, iar cu fiecare proiect realizat devenim mai buni în ceea ce facem. Iată cum:

Primul pas – Completează formularul de aplicare VIP pe care îl găseşti AICI trimite-l pana pe 21 octombrie la hai@econosofia.org, iar apoi programează-te la interviu într-una din zilele de 23, 24 sau 25 octombrie în funcţie de disponibilitatea ta. Nu uita să bifezi Econosofia la sfârşitul formularului.

Al doilea pas – După interviul VIP, dacă te afli printre recomandările pentru Econosofia, vei fi contactat în cel mai scurt timp via e-mail pentru a te înscrie la cel de-al doilea interviu ce va avea loc pe 27 sau 28 octombrie, la ora aleasă de tine.

Crisis aftermath in a new term

Everyone’s talking about it – it’s been a year since the crisis officially started and while any possible aspect of it has been deeply covered in the media, in politics and just about anywhere else its truly surprising effects are just making themselves known.

The Economy’s on Prozac…

…Curious to know why?

În contextul stării actuale, depăşind cu mult parametrii unei simple schimbări ciclice, criza economică cronică pare să răspundă stimulilor care vizează tratarea acesteia cu diferite politici care au efecte anti-depresive. Astfel, într-o lume descurajată, în vederea găsirii unor soluţii, care nu doar atenuează circumstanţele, clubul Econosofia, din cadrul organizaţiei studenţeşti Voluntari pentru Idei şi Proiecte, organizează, în perioada 4-8 mai 2009, cea de-a şasea ediţie a proiectului Economics through a Macrofying Glass.

To be or not to be …That is the question

Nowadays, Europe manifests two completely different trends, one of them, integration through European Union and the enlargement process, and other, fragmentation by obtaining autonomy by some regions, the most recent example of this being Kosovo. On the other hand, to make part of EU, it’s necessary the dissolution of conflicts inside the state that wants to adhere to European Union.

Why the need for autonomy? Why do conflicts that lead to fragmentation appear? Or more exactly, what are the causes of those already existing?

Is it really snowing in Europe?

A new trend, and also a fear, has been born in the scientific arena: demographic winter, which means the disappearance of the human race by slowly decreasing the number of people.

I remember a few years ago (like 7 years) watching a documentary on Discovery showed what the Earth would look like in future: cities on sees, huge blocks, every square meter was used to build something because ground wouldn’t be enough for the population.

What is sustainable development?

The concept appeared in earlier decades due to a high number of environmental movements. It was first defined by World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) as the development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This definition is clear enough, no need for further explanations. But there are two more questions worth thinking about: Why should we think about the future generations and how do we implement sustainable development?

Is economics a science?

This question, apparently silly, is one that people have been asking themselves throughout time. To decide if economics, as a science, is solid enough to explain/predict  the effects of different actions, we must first know what exactly science is. According to an academic definition, science can be defined as the organized body of knowledge that is derived from observations of natural events and conditions and that can be verified or tested by further investigations. Even if we take into consideration that science is just “the belief in ignorance of experts” one thing is certain: because in large part economics reflects human beliefs we might think that it is not a science in the way that physics, chemistry or mathematics are. 

Isn’t it ironic?

Isn’t it ironic that, in the past, when emergent countries from Asia were confronted with financial crisis, the Western-trained economists advised them to perform a complete restructuring of the financial system (explicitly favoring bank closures or mergers and not supporting any more liquidity injections that would prolong the existence of a vulnerable system), but now, when the West has its own chance to make an example of how capitalism can handle any challenge, the biggest step it has been done to solve the present distress is represented by bail out money?