World in Conflict and
Economies in Transition
The economics, politics,
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Cyclopedia of Economics and Economies
in Transition
This is a series of articles written and
published between 1996 and the present in leading newspapers in the USA,
Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, the Czech Republic, in "Central
Europe Review", by United
Press International (UPI), and in other newspapers, Webzines and
periodicals throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Balkans
(Southeastern Europe), including Brussels Morning.
The articles deal with the
history, geopolitics, societies, cultures, and economies of developing
countries and post-Communist countries in transition.
Table of Contents
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Macroeconomics,
Microeconomics
Topic: Issues in
Microeconomics
Topic: Issues in
Macroeconomics
International Affairs
Topic: Central and
Eastern Europe
Topic: The Balkan Cycle - Politics and
Economies
Topic: The Republic of
Macedonia
Topic: Issues in
Microeconomics
Employment and Unemployment
The
Labour Divide - I. Employment and Unemployment
The
Labour Divide - II. Migration and Brain Drain
The
Labour Divide - III. Entrepreneurship and Workaholism
The
Labour Divide - IV. The Unions after Communism
The
Labour Divide - V. Employee Benefits and Ownership
The
Labour Divide - VI. The Future of Work
Immigrants
and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity
Industrial
Action and Competition Laws
The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly:
Employees and Management
Ownership of Firms
Make Your Workers
Your Partners
Battling Society's
Cancer: Unemployment
Workaholism, Leisure
and Pleasure
Business and Management
Small Businesses -
Big Obstacles
Make Your Workers
Your Partners
The Inferno of the
Financial Director
Securities
Financial Investor,
Strategic Investor
The Myth of the
Earnings Yield
The
Friendly Trend - Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis
The Roller Coaster Market - On
Volatility and Risk
The
Future of the SEC - Interview with Gary Goodenow
Portfolio
Management Theory and Technical Analysis Lecture Notes
Emerging and Transition Economies
The Internet
in the Countries in Transition
Trading
from a Suitcase - The Case of Shuttle Trade
The Blessings of the
Black Economy
Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) - Pros and Cons
Sectors and Industries
Articles
about e-Commerce, e-Publishing, and Digital Content
The
Internet - A Medium or a Message?
The
Ecology of Environmentalism
Environmentalism and
Post-modernism as Ideas of Progress
The
Dying Breed - East European Healthcare
Entertaining the Masses
in Transition
Electricity Markets in
Eastern Europe
Europe's Agricultural
Revolution
The Sickly State of
Public Hospitals
The Public Sector -
An Uncertain Future
The Public Sector in
Economies in Transition
Public Procurement
and Very Private Benefits
The Demise of the
Dinosaur PTTs
Financing Transport
Infrastructure
Privatizing
with Golden Shares
Scandals, Crime, Corruption, and Crises
The Greatest Savings
Crisis in History
The
Typology of Financial Scandals: Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes
With
a Note on Cryptoassets (such as Cryptocurrencies)
(Case Studies: The Savings and Loans Crisis,
Crash of 1929, British Real Estate)
The Shadowy World of
International Finance
Hawala,
or the Bank that Never Was
Money
Laundering in a Changed World
Bully
at Work - Interview with Tim Field
The
Economics of Conspiracy Theories
Fimaco Wouldn't Die - Russia's Missing Billions
Treasure
Island Revisited - Maritime Piracy
Organ Trafficking in Eastern
Europe
Human
Trafficking in Eastern Europe
Nigerian Scams - Begging Your
Trust in Africa
Banking
Bankers' Banks - The
Role of Central Banks in Banking Crises
The European Bank
for Retardation of Development
Hawala,
or the Bank that Never Was
Austrian
Banking - An Interview with Wolfgang Christl
Finance and Accounting
Hedging Foreign
Exchange Risks
Make Your Workers
your Partners
The
Crisis of the Bookkeepers - An Interview with David Jones
Topic: Issues in
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
and Macroeconomics Lecture Notes
Development and Growth
Taxation
To Tax, or Not to
Tax - This is the Question
Monetary Policy
How do Other
Countries Devalue their Currencies?
Fiscal Policy
The Delicate Art of
Balancing the Budget
Economic Management
in a State of War
Market Regulation
Foreign Investments and Trade
Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) - Pros and Cons
Foreign Investments
- A Dialogue with the Prime Minister of Macedonia
Eastward, Ho - FDI in
Central and Eastern Europe
Nation Branding, Place
Marketing, and Investment Promotion
Trade Imbalances and
the Health of the Economy - A Dialogue with the Prime Minister of Macedonia
God's Diplomacy -
International Trade
God's Diplomacy and Human
Conflicts
The Demonetization of
the East
O'Neill's Free Dinner -
America's Current Account Deficit
Trading
from a Suitcase - The Case of Shuttle Trade
The
Agenda of International Trade - Interview with Dan Horovitz
The Gulf between Baghdad and
Doha
Economics
The Dismal
Mind - Economics as a Pretension to Science
Economics - The Neglected
Branch of Psychology
Immortality and
Mortality in the Economic Sciences
Anarchy
as an Organizing Principle
In Retrospect
Winners of the 1997
and 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
1998 - The End of
Globalization
On the Way to a Global
Economic Calamity
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF Deconstructed
- A Dialogue
The
Washington Consensus - I. The IMF
The
Washington Consensus - II. Washington and Sarajevo
Property Rights
The Revolt of the
Poor: Intellectual Property Rights
The Case of the Compressed Image
Market Forces
The Distributive
Justice of the Market
Scavenger Economies
and Predator Economies
Notes on the
Economics of Game Theory
The
Disruptive Engine - Innovation and the Capitalist Dream
Market Participants (Players)
Market Impeders and
Market Inefficiencies
The Redistributive
Mechanism of Divorce
Network
vs. Hierarchy as Organizing Principles in Business and the Economy:
Information,
Power, and Benefits – Dividing the Loot
The Predicament of
the Newly Rich
Moral
Hazard the Survival Value of Risk
Economies in Transition
Financial Crises,
Global Capital Flows and IFIs
Forward to the Past -
Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe
Leapfrogging
Transition - Technology and Post Communism
Equity and Debt
The Myth of the
Earnings Yield
Topic: Central and Eastern
Europe
Transition and EU Enlargement
Inside, Outside -
The Diaspora and the State
The Rip van Winkle
Institutions
The Author of This
Article is a Racist
Women in Transition:
From Post Feminism to Past
Femininity
Axes to Grind - The
Taxonomy of Political Conflict
Financial Crises,
Global Capital Flows and IFIs
Forward to the Past -
Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe
Leapfrogging
Transition - Technology and Post Communism
Entertaining the Masses
in Transition
Left
and Right in a Divided Europe
Wanted: An East European
Ataturk
Europe's Agricultural
Revolution
Western Migration to
East Europe
Russia
Foreigners and the New
Russian Economy
The Tragedy of Errors
(Book Review)
The Betrayal of
History (Book Review)
Russian
Roulette - The Security Apparatus
Russian
Roulette - The Energy Sector
Russian
Roulette - The Financial Sector
Russian
Roulette - The Russian Devolution
Russian
Roulette - Russian Agriculture
Pinks
in Space - The Space Industry
Russia's British Turning
Point
Let
My People Go - The Jackson-Vanik Controversy
Fimaco Wouldn't Die - Russia's Missing Billions
Russia Straddles the
Euro-Atlantic Divide
Russian Synergies - YukosSibneft
Central Europe
What can the CNB Learn
from Israel
Central Europe - Or,
The New Colonies
The
EU and NATO - The Competing Alliances
The Concert of
Europe, Interrupted
Ever
Closer Union - Hungary's Economy
Red
Sun Rising - Hungary's Elections
The
Dying Breed - East European Healthcare
Austrian
Banking - An Interview with Wolfgang Christl
East Europe
Eastern Europe's Change of
Climate
Organ Trafficking in Eastern
Europe
Electricity Markets in
Eastern Europe
Belarus - Europe's Pariah
Strongman
The
Beginning of History - Islam and Liberalism
Central Asia
Iran
between Reform and Mayhem
Afghan
Myths - Interview with Anssi Kullberg
The Uncommon Poverty of the
Commonwealth
The United States of America
What
Really Happened on September 11?
Middle East
Iraq's
Reconstruction - Payback Time
God's Diplomacy and Human
Conflicts
The Economies of the
Middle East
Germany
Fascism
- The Tensile Permanence
Renaissance
and Nazism as Ideas of Progress
Unification
on Trial - Elections in Saxony-Anhalt
Developing Countries
Deja V-Euro:
Previous Monetary Unions
The
Economics of Foreign Military Bases
Burning
the Oil - Development and Ethnic Tensions
The
Cost of Unification - German Lessons for Korea
The Balkan Cycle -
Politics and Economies
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History and Culture
The Rip van Winkle Institutions
The Author of this Article is a
Racist
Skopje - Where Time Stood Still
The Crescent and the Cross -
Introduction
The Crescent and the Cross - A First
Encounter
The Crescent and the Cross - The
Communities of God
Micromanaging Malignant Optimism
The Eastern Question Revisited
The Ebony Towers - A Cautionary Tale
Greeks Bearing Gifts - Greek
Investment in the Balkan
Terrorism and War
The Union of Death -
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters in the Balkans
The Insurgents and the Swastika
Terrorism as a Psychodynamic
Phenomenon
Kosovo
Millenarian Thoughts about Kosovo
... and the Treasure Trove of
Kosovo
Albania
The Myth of Great Albania -
Introduction
The Myth of Great Albania - History
- Part I
The Myth of Great Albania - History
- Part II
The Myth of Great Albania - History
- Part III
Yugoslavia
The Myths of Yugoslavia - Part I
The Myths of Yugoslavia - Part II
The Myths of Yugoslavia - Part III
Notes from an Imploding Empire
The Second October Revolution - Book
Review
Yugoslavia Turns to High Return
Bulgaria
Bulgaria's Economy on the Path to
the EU
Bulgaria - Past, Present, and
Multiethnic Future
Slovenia, Croatia,
and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia - An Economy in Search of a
State
The Washington Consensus - II.
Washington and Sarajevo
Romania
Romania - Europe's Heart Failure
Topic: The Republic of
Macedonia
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Interviews
An Interview in
"Nova Makedonija - Sabota"
Interview with Makedonsko Sonce
Economy
Macedonia's Economy 2008
- Dialog with Dan Doncev
Why is the
Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful?
God's Diplomacy:
International Trade and the Macedonian Economy
Should the
Government Compensate the Clients of TAT?
Equity, Europe,
Investments:
Three Wrong Orientations of
the Macedonian Economy
Macedonia's Great
Opportunity -
How to Write a Business Plan
A Casino in Macedonia
- A Mistake or a Blessing?
The Ifs and VATs of
Taxation in Macedonia
A Suggested
Economic Agenda for Macedonia
An Evaluation of the
Devaluation
Does Macedonia Need
Competition Laws?
An Open Letter to
the New Premier (21/9/98)
Curing Macedonia
(Book Introduction)
Commentary by Mr.
Svetozar Janevski
What Can the
Macedonian Central Bank Learn from Israel
Economic Free Zones
in Macedonia
The Patriarch of
Industry - Interview with Svetozar Janevski
Macedonia
- Economy and Nation (Interview)
Macedonia's
Growing Dependence
Political and Cultural Issues
Skopje - Where Time
Stood Still
Interview with
Minister of Finance, Nikola Gruevski
Interview with the
Prime Minister, Ljubco Georgievski
Macedonia is not
Bosnia - Interview with Edward Joseph
Thucydides' Honour -
Can the Albanians be Bought off?
Macedonia - The Brink
and the Cusp
Interview
with the President, Boris Trajkovski
After
the Rain - Interview with the Minister of Finance, Nikola Gruevski
Interview
with Ljubomir Frckoski
(Articles are added periodically)
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