World in Conflict and Economies in Transition
The economics, politics, history, cultures, and societies of countries and regions in conflict and transition
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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 Macedonia, Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, the Czech Republic, in "Central Europe Review", by United Press International (UPI), and in other Web zines and periodicals throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Balkans (Southeastern Europe).
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
(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
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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