Year 2009, Issue 4

Date published

7.12.2009

Table of content

  • Daniela Sotirova
    Business Ethics and Crisis
    JEL: M14
    Keywords: business ethics, ethics, crisis, public ethical discourse, greed, ethical recession, values in business
    Summary: A transformation of business ethics discourse in modern-day global crises is discussed in this paper. A new conceptual framework and a different intellectual atmosphere for public ethical discourse have been originated. The main... A transformation of business ethics discourse in modern-day global crises is discussed in this paper. A new conceptual framework and a different intellectual atmosphere for public ethical discourse have been originated. The main question is of changing perspectives to understand ethical issues in business. The problem requires a broad understanding of business ethics as a systematic handling the values in business. Ethics as a critical discipline /i.e. it makes use of critical analysis/ becomes an important perspective of ethical thinking in a situation of global crisis. Analyses and conclusions are based on methods typical for any interdisciplinary applied-oriented study in humanities: interpretation of viewpoints and texts of public leaders in economics, crisis and ethics; comparative and content analyses of social facts and sociological data are used in consideration.
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  • Nikolay Zhivkov
    About Orpheus, Orphism, and Thracian State Arrangement
    JEL: Z00
    Keywords: Orphism, thracian state arrangement
    Summary: Orphism is presented as a moral and religious system associated with belief in immortality. Leading role in it played the idea of ​​improving the soul, ie the zeal of believers to reach immortality through participation... Orphism is presented as a moral and religious system associated with belief in immortality. Leading role in it played the idea of ​​improving the soul, ie the zeal of believers to reach immortality through participation in sermons, hymns and cult-ritual practices. They are grouped in two societies - folks and aristocratic. Through them they participate in the life of state.
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  • Silviya Panteleeva
    Flexecurity of Bulgarian Labor Market
    JEL: J62, J83
    Keywords: flexecurity, flexible security, flexibility of the employment, social security, labour market, labour legislation
    Summary: In the contemporary social and economical conditions, in the European market environment there is a new conception, called “flexecurity”. It is connected with a combination of flexible employment and social security, security of the... In the contemporary social and economical conditions, in the European market environment there is a new conception, called “flexecurity”. It is connected with a combination of flexible employment and social security, security of the employment through flexibility of the work. Only with this approach is possible to work European labour market with equivalent positions of its agents, with important role of the social state in determination the problem for an optimal work of the labour market.
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  • Angel Iliev
    Didactic Tests - a Modern Measurement Method of Pupil's Achievements in Mathematics
    Keywords: mathematics, marking methods, didactic test
    Summary: Through innovation, modern technologies, training methods for measuring and evaluating student performance it is possible to achieve more efficient and quality learning system by creating conditions for improving the performance of... Through innovation, modern technologies, training methods for measuring and evaluating student performance it is possible to achieve more efficient and quality learning system by creating conditions for improving the performance of the students. Modernization of education is increasingly necessary in mathematics's education.
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  • Ludwig Von Mises
    Human Action, Part Four, Chapter XXIV. Harmony and Conflict of Interests
    Keywords: human action, conflict of interests
    Summary: The changes in the data whose reiterated emergence prevents the economic system from turning into an evenly rotating economy and produces again and again entrepreneurial profit and loss are favorable to some members of society and... The changes in the data whose reiterated emergence prevents the economic system from turning into an evenly rotating economy and produces again and again entrepreneurial profit and loss are favorable to some members of society and unfavorable to others. Hence, people concluded, the gain of one man is the damage of another; no man profits but by the loss of others. This dogma was already advanced by some ancient authors. Among modern writers Montaigne was the first to restate it; we may fairly call it the Montaigne dogma. It was the quintessence of the doctrines of Mercantilism, old and new. It is at the bottom of all modern doctrines teaching that there prevails, within the frame of the market economy, an irreconcilable conflict among the interests of various social classes within a nation and furthermore between the interests of any nation and those of all other nations.
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