The following article aims to examine the programs of the two main parties in the next parliamentary elections - BSP and GERB. The basis for this is a debate organized by "Nova TV", as well as the programs published on their websites. The article focuses on their economic aspects and, even more so, their consequences for the fiscal system. The first …

The draft law on the state budget for next year does not confirm initial expectations. The government has once again accumulated surpluses this year and although the budget balance at the end of 2016 is equal to zero, a balanced budget will not be a fact next year. Instead of trying to utilize its current revenues and preserve …

Brian Kaplan* I have just finished the unpublished collection Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of Gary Becker, edited by Tom Church, Chris Miller, and John Taylor. For me, the most striking part of the text is John Korhane’s on inequality: “The most mysterious thing is why left critics focus on the one percent in …

Douglas Rasmussen[1] It is often said that markets are guided “as if by an invisible hand” to create order and cooperation among people. Markets achieve this harmonious result through the motives and mutual interest of each person. But there is another, “older” method of organizing people, namely the way of building …

David Shellenberger Today I added a video introduction to my site. Thanks to James Nicoloro for the wonderful job of producing it. I wrote about it in “The First National Mark Twain Conference.” Almost 3 years ago, I wrote in my article “Libertarianism: The Political Philosophy of Compassion”: “Libertarianism is the political philosophy of compassion. It …

Incidents in ammunition production or disposal plants are becoming more and more common in the news. Unfortunately, regardless of their nature and the reasons for their occurrence, they are perceived as something that happens because of private initiative in the sector. This “stone in the garden” of the free market is largely …

The ban on the export of unprocessed timber has provoked a lot of reactions, mainly because of the very initiative taken by the government. The ruling coalition, which has become known for its spontaneous decisions attacking specific problems under the guise of the term “reform”, has once again pitted business against society. The particular populism seen in …