politics

We at EKIP are pleased to present you the first episode of our new series of audio essays! The idea of this series is to regularly create and publish new audio content with our reflections on a variety of political, economic, and philosophical topics. This project is only possible thanks to the generous support of our …

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The spread of communism cannot be protected by the right to free expression. Recently, questions have been increasingly raised on domestic social networks as to whether the “innocent” victims of the totalitarian right-wing regimes in Bulgaria and around the world, who used repressive methods to save their countries from the USSR-funded …

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The peculiarities of political life are such that the most adaptable survive in it, and they are usually not the smartest, most honest, most talented, or most worthy representatives of the human race. Natural selection in the political jungle often brings to the fore people of dubious moral qualities. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, and they deserve ...

Undoubtedly the most well-known and widely used indicator of macroeconomic performance is gross domestic product. Like many other historical events, it is difficult to determine who and when began measuring national income. Interest in accounting at the national level emerged in the nineteenth century and, more specifically, the rapid economic growth during …

"Skin in the Game," the new book by famed financier-turned-philosopher Nassim Taleb, is the most important book published in recent years (probably since his last book, "Antifragility," which was published in 2012). Taleb is one of the few thinkers throughout human history whose writings...

Six years after the enthusiastic beginning, EKIP is in a new phase of its development. In 2011, we started as a blog of young economists, political scientists, lawyers, as a gathering place for the ideas of future policy experts. Today, they are already actively participating in discussions about the shape of the market, the state and the economic future of the country…

Author: Gratsian Kolev Wooden philosophy has repeatedly given specific characteristics for the phenomenon called intellectual* and for this reason I will not emphasize today the dissection of this phenomenon. Today's talk will be directed to one (also considered by wooden philosophy) Painful question, which can be called: WHAT ARE …

"Taxes are theft." You may have heard similar statements made or shared by your libertarian (or classical liberal) acquaintances. Is there any logic behind this statement, though, or is it just another hollow political slogan? Let's start with a thought experiment. If a robber threatened you with a gun...