Bulgaria

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 …

Prohibitions have been part of the history of mankind since biblical times. Their emergence and public acceptance or rejection are the result of a long evolutionary process. In fact, the past abounds with examples in which attempts by state or other authorities to impose certain restrictions ended in failure. The most popular is probably the attempt to introduce …

Dear readers, from EKIP we are officially restarting our column "Monthly Macroeconomic Monitor"! The new format of the column will be a series of infographics that will be published each month after the publication of the relevant data from the NSI. Each infographic will focus on a different sector or a key indicator for the Bulgarian economy. The first months …

(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 …

The basic facts about the history of Eastern Rumelia are well known. It was created with the consent of the main European powers, including the Ottoman Empire and Russia. According to the decisions of the Treaty of Berlin (July 13, 1878), the region has administrative autonomy under the direct authority of the Sultan. His representative is the Governor-General (Chief Governor), who …

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 …

Industrialization is one of the visible dimensions of the economic and social modernization experienced by developed capitalist societies in the 19th century. The process of the emergence of industrial structures is a complex result of relative spiritual, economic and scientific freedom, security of private property and appropriate institutional structure. Communists put industrialization among their main economic …

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The economic bankruptcy of socialism has long been convincingly proven by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. In the absence of private ownership of the means of production, there is no market, and without a market, money prices cannot be formed. Without prices, rational production, construction, etc. cannot be organized. Separately …

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