VOLUME 4(3) • 2009
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE LOGICALLY VIVID SYSTEM
Abstract. The paper is aimed at to reconsider, inside a logical approach, some crucial concepts regarding the economic process (system, optimal process, sustainable process, network, and emergence). Based on these concepts (determined by their necessary and sufficient predicates) a new concept – the..
ON THE LOGIC OF AUTOMATIC FISCAL STABILIZER
Abstract. The study has as a background objective the design of a logical base of the non-discretionary public policy. In this end, the authors introduce some definition distinctions between the direct versus indirect and between explicit versus implicit public policies of adjustment. On this base, ..
DECENTRALIZATION OF THE FISCAL POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE EVOLUTION
ABSTRACT: In many settings, markets can be a highly resultive way to organize an economy, efficiently making the most of economic resources. In such a network, agents compare private benefits and private costs, ignoring such external costs of their operations as contamination. There is now a vast li..
HOW THE WEB AFFECTS THE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT
ABSTRACT. Hindman et al. undertake a large-scale survey of the political content available online, involving iterative crawling away from political sites easily accessible through popular online search tools, and using sophisticated automated methods to categorize site content. As Sciadas puts it, k..
REGULATING THE FUNCTIONING OF AGRI-FOOD POLICIES AND MARKETS
ABSTRACT. Csaki and Forgacs focus on the characteristics of small farms in both Central Europe and the former Soviet Union countries. Van der Straeten et al. explore the growth possibilities of the Flemish dairy sector with the outlook of a quota abolishment as a case study of this policy ..
THE IMPOSITION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY ON CORPORATE ENTITIES
ABSTRACT. As Unnever et al. put it, the recent wave of corporate wrongdoing has raised the issue of whether the public is concerned about the control of lawlessness in the business world. Levi and Dorn hold that some headline risk concepts are: incoherence or lack of clarity of legali..
DOES THE INTERNET DETERMINE THE NATURE OF COMMUNICATION?
ABSTRACT. Chen et al. point out that the Internet may be modestly increasing interaction with friends and relatives at a distance, has mixed local effects, and may be diverting people from household interactions. Wellman says that the Internet is an excellent medium for supporting far-flung, intermi..
THE RISK OF PROPAGATION OF BANK FAILURES THROUGH INTERBANK MARKETS
ABSTRACT. Ma reviews and examines the principal steps taken by the Chinese government since 1998 to repair the bank balance sheets and how they have been funded. Ito and Hashimoto analyze the bank restructuring process in Malaysia from the currency crisis of 1997 to present. Rochet develops a simple..
THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SYSTEMS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
ABSTRACT. Onumah et al. show how specific producer organizations and relatively large end-users can structure long-term supply arrangements on the basis of internationally accepted standards and rules or mutually agreed terms and conditions. Emlinger et al. write that the regulation of trade with th..