...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – ... ... The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV. The Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits... ...d to choose between opportunities, between alternative uses of resources, painfully mindful of their costs. This is how the perennial textbook "Ec... ..., inflation is not the inevitable outcome of growth. It merely reflects the output gap between actual and potential GDP. As long as the gap is nega... ...e., whilst the economy is drowning in spare capacity - inflation lies dormant. The gap widens if growth is anemic and below the economy's potential... ...cide to co-operate, rather than compete, they do not always have price increases in mind. Sometimes, they get together simply in order to cut costs,... ... versus poor country pricing for "essential high-tech products" as well. The Health GAP Coalition commented on the report: "On the issue of differe... ...he wrong cultural context, discouraging social mores, xenophobia, a paranoid set of mind, isolation from international trade and FDI, lack of fiscal...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ...mental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third ... ...urse, for one's wish to be helped to die to be accommodated, one has to be in sound mind and to will one's death knowingly, intentionally, and force... ...vious answer is that A can never motivate B not to follow B's self-interest - never mind what the incentives are. That economists pretend otherwise ... ...d by an earthquake – the owner will surely rage, though no conscious, deliberating mind was at work. When we perceive an injustice in the distribut... ... cause and effect rather than identity of pain and its correlate in the brain. The gap is even bigger when we try to apply natural languages to the... ...ated or communicated. No dictionary can ever be constructed to bridge this lingual gap. In principle, experience is incommunicable. People - in the... ...physical or, at least, has strong physical correlates. The function of bridging the gap between an idiosyncratic language (his or her own) and a mor...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.