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Martin Assa
Civil Society - the Only Barrier to the Ever Increasing Economic Power of Corporations
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The article is about understanding the basics of a modern society crisis. That is why the latest conceptions of what a civil society is (regional, national and global) and what a corporation is (national and transnational) are introduced. Later, the article examines the relationship between civil society, political power and corporations in the last 20-30 years.
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Nikola Zhivkov, Marieta Zhivkova
The Role of Democracy in Reaching Public Consolidation
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In this article, we analyzed in historical aspects of the Bulgarian authors related to the formation of the values of democracy. A logical connection with some of them is the analyzed leading goals and principles in the Preamble of the 1991 Constitution. They form the image of constitutional democracy. Based on modern theoretical statements and political practices, the conviction is imposed that, guided by its principles, the political subjects will be able to achieve agreement and consolidation necessary to bring sustainability to the development of society.
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Nataliya Marinova
Information Society in European Union and Bulgaria – Situation and Trends in Information and Communication Technologies Usage
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The European Union has long recognized the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as key factor to greater competitiveness and integration of business organizations of the continent into the global economy. Currently, the transition to the Information Society has no alternative. Matter of national choice of each Member State, including Bulgaria, is not whether to build such, but manner and forms of its realization. Development of Information Society is a cross-border and transnational process in which individual countries implement their national policies.
The theme of this paper is to investigate legislation, condition and trends in European Information Society. The aim of the study is a comparative analysis of indicators characterizing the Information Society in Europe as a whole and Bulgaria in particular. An empirical data from the websites of Eurostat, National Statistical Institute and the survey with the participation of the author are used for achieving the objective.
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Yordan Vasilev
Transformation Processes and Economic Priorities of Bulgaria
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Karim Naama
Private Property in Terms of the Thinker Ibn Khaldun (1331-1406)
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Form of ownership became a real important aspect of modern economic system, one of the most influential forces determining the further course of development of our planet. It affects all areas of public life, including economic, political, social, culture, ecology and others.
In the face of private ownership, some experts see a serious threat to the economic system and other means for the future progress of the global economy. The positive impact of private ownership is associated with the effect of competition to which it inevitably leads and negative effects - in potential conflict.
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Ludwig Von Mises
Human Action, Part Five, Chapter XXV. The Imaginary Construction of a Socialist Society
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When the social philosophers of the eighteenth century laid the foundations of praxeology and economics, they were confronted with an almost universally accepted and uncontested distinction between the petty selfish individuals and the state, the representative of the interests of the whole society.
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Metody Kanev
Human Development– At Stake
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The "individual-society" relationship has been studied as a basic functional mechanism, dominated by the organizing principle of social organization in its historically different social forms. It defends the thesis that today, human development has become such an organizing principle. Human development and social development, turning each other into a goal and mechanism for achieving it, are becoming more identical. This is actually the modern social ideal - achieving social structure that creates the best conditions and opportunities for developing the strengths and abilities of each person.
