Seriously! The man has all the qualities to be a leader. He has shown it with his years in business, he shows it in his emotionally charged parliamentary life. He also has all the qualities to stay in power or around it for a long time. He knows what you have to do when elections are coming up, and …
More »The beauty of the uncontrollable city
The dream of the perfect city is almost as old as civilization itself. Whether city planners dream of parallel and perpendicular straight streets, or radial streets intersected by smaller and larger rings of "rings" or some other variation - proto-urbanists' attempts to create the ideal urban environment have been around for centuries. Older than them...
More »The Bulgarian Army: Heroic feats intertwined with financial and other abuses
The Bulgarian Army was formed as one of the important national institutions after the Liberation. It was supported by Bulgarian taxpayers and was entrusted with the task of protecting the national state in the powder keg called the Balkan Peninsula. Some of the truest heroes, before whom we rightly bow our heads, served in the Bulgarian Army. Part …
More »The Ottoman State's policy of non-interference in agriculture in the 19th century
Author: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hristiyan Atanasov How the state's departure from its priority can have a positive impact Let's start with the fact that agriculture was the main priority of the Ottoman state throughout its existence. It can be said that the reasons for this are mainly fiscal, but also social. So …
More »An overdose of incompetence...or the problem that could cost Trump everything
Trump and his administration have been the subject of much coverage in our media, primarily over his economic and foreign policy. This article will examine his administration's actions on an issue that was not expected to become a cornerstone of his term, but is on its way...
More »Article 13 - censorship or harmless EU proposal?
With little public attention, considered a boutique topic, the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market will be voted on in the Council of the European Union in April. It includes the controversial Article 13, which will oblige all internet service providers to introduce mandatory filters for tracking, recognition …
More »The problems with proposed measures against academic plagiarism
The Parliamentary Committee on Education has proposed amendments to the Academic Staff Development Act (ASDA), which aim, broadly speaking, to achieve two main things: To add the possibility of revoking doctoral degrees and dismissing university professors who are found guilty of plagiarism. In the event of systematic violations (at least three academics …
More »The First Bulgarian Five-Year Plan
Five-year plan is the abbreviated name of the five-year plans, through which economic development is centrally controlled and planned under socialist conditions. That is why the socialist countries of Eastern Europe are often called countries with central planning, although five-year plans also exist outside the Eastern Bloc. The implementation of the economic goals set by the political leadership …
More »The Catastrophe of the First Bulgarian Capitalism and Its Roots
The first Bulgarian capitalism roughly covers the period from the Liberation in 1878 to the September 9th coup in 1944. The economic, social and cultural achievements of these decades are the subject of numerous assessments. Even the most optimistic among them do not show particularly impressive results. Results of the first Bulgarian capitalism From 1878 to 1944 …
More »Alfred Marshall and economics as a science of human movement
There comes a time in every person's life when he or she must decide for themselves which values will be the compass by which they will choose their direction of movement. Inevitably, this also applies to larger organisms, and here let my analogy abruptly shift to companies and countries. Lately, many different …
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