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This text is a translation of the article “The problem of corruption” published on Mises.org more than 16 years ago. This translation is provoked by the unwillingness to accept the thesis that the quality of the state is solely a consequence of what the people in the country in question are like. This would, for me, …

The Sofia neighborhood of Mladost has become a center of what American political scientists call grassroots activism. Starting with the election of the controversial and currently indicted Desislava Ivancheva as district mayor in October 2016 – through the support of local committees and gravitating activists of small urban parties in opposition to …

The month was marked by the extremely high activity of our health economist Arkadi Sharkov in the media. Currently, a deep public debate is underway in our country regarding the problems in the healthcare system and the necessary reforms that can solve them. Sharkov and others took an active part in this debate in all possible ways …

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(This article is a summary of the ECT proposal to abolish corporate tax on retained earnings in Bulgaria and the analysis of the potential effects of such a reform. The full text of the report on the topic can be read here.) In recent years, the debate on corporate tax, its optimal level and the resulting …

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Over the past week or two, the main topic that has been worrying the Bulgarian public is the expected increase in bread prices during the winter season, due to the poor harvest this year and the increase in gas prices. Although this increase is due to completely objective economic realities that cannot be changed at the moment, and …

The state is about to take another inadequate step towards the integration of people with disabilities in Bulgaria. Changes in labor legislation are being discussed, according to which companies will be obliged to hire a certain number of employees with disabilities. Quotas are envisaged, depending on the number of employees in specific companies: employers with 20 to 49 …

At the end of last year, the cabinet proposed that the minimum wage in Bulgaria be increased to 510 leva in 2018. The administrative increase in the minimum wage is a frequently used tool by the state to "fight poverty". In practice, however, this increase has a negative impact on employment and the investment climate. …

State money for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is a topic on which no matter what anyone says, it will still be wrong. This is because there are two completely opposite, but equally correct, points of view. On the one hand, it is really not right for someone to receive money without working for it – in …