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Author: Walter Kirn About five years ago, I bought an old juicer for seven dollars at a thrift store. It was one of those little, old-fashioned kitchen gadgets that looked like they were made to withstand a blast or a hammer blow. As soon as I turned the motor on with the metal knob, the drive shaft spun a heavy ceramic head made of …

I dedicate this article to my friend Vladimir Karolev, with whom we have repeatedly discussed the concessioning of water, district heating, resorts, beaches and services. [i] After St. George’s Day, state television spread the news that the water supply companies were planning to raise the price of water. As the drafter and introducer of the modern (since 1991) law on the protection …

This article will be devoted to the market structures created by the neoclassical mainstream school. A retrospective of the concept of competition from the classical economists onwards will be made, and thus it will be possible to answer the question of why and how the models of perfect and imperfect competition were created. First, what is a market? Every …

At the end of 2016, the "patriotic" idea of imposing Bulgarian food in stores became fashionable again, as the state had to introduce corresponding repressive requirements on businesses along the lines of "buy only Bulgarian". According to the draft law submitted by the BSP, "for part of the quantities of products offered, the production of which is traditional for Bulgaria...it is mandatory...

The time has come for the drafting and adoption of the state budget, and, as we have become accustomed to every year, there has been talk of increasing the minimum wage (MW). Along with its other social measures, the so-called “right-wing” government has decided to increase the MW twice next year – at the beginning and in the middle …