Should taxpayer money be used to fund scientific projects? Is there a better way to fund research? What are the problems with government spending?
More »The Ten Principles of a Free Society*
The Ten Principles of a Free Society is an appendix to Ron Paul's book - Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom. Expect the entire book translated into Bulgarian soon
More »What do economists agree on?
In a popular blog post from 2009, Greg Mankiw – author of one of the most popular economics textbooks – outlined the topics on which the vast majority of economists in the world agree. Here is his list, and we have tried to divide them into those on which we also agree …
More »So much for financial stability
More than a month of protests involving thousands of people do not seem to bother the ruling party – they not only have no intention of resigning, but also continue to pursue harmful policies. The latest manifestation of this was the update of the state budget. The article will analyze the arguments that justify this move.
More »Machiavelli on protests. The breaking of the umbilical cord in the republic
If there is one thinker who has been brave enough to speak openly about the nature of civil protest, it is Niccolò Machiavelli. In his reflections on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy, he calls protesters “an uncontrollable mob,” sweeping away everything before them, whether it is useful or not…
More »A possible path for the political system after the protests
The protests that have been going on for more than twenty days are giving rise to reflections on the political system in the country. What are the levers of influence, how does our type of representative democracy function, where are the similarities and differences with other models around the world? On this occasion, it is interesting to look at where the legitimacy of the existing …
More »Guest article: What prevents us from being free?
Who wants communism? Nobody, of course, everyone wants freedom... and if possible a welfare state. This sounds as paradoxical as the reasoning about Achilles and the Tortoise.
More »On the need for a whip. The internal BSP games
The chants of the protesters in the streets, "Red trash", are hardly pleasing to some of the BSP members. It is unlikely that even some of them associate themselves with those members of the party for whom the slogan itself was created in the early 90s. It was the offended BSP sympathizers who rose up in rebellion against ...
More »Shall we dance at 6:30 PM?
What happened yesterday in parliament is simply a consequence of the accumulation of such compromises with freedom. The good thing this time is that they went too far. Enough to provoke the first principled protest in Bulgaria in a long time
More »IME Research: Defining and Measuring the Middle Class*
Our editor Stoyan Panchev, together with the Institute for Market Economics, published a study on the middle class in Bulgaria. A definition is being sought that would allow for the measurement and characterization of people in the middle. See the Bulgarian version of the study.
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