Проф. д-р ик. н. Атанас Ганев на 90 години
90th anniversary of Prof. Atanas Ganev, Dr. Ec. Scs.
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90th anniversary of Prof. Atanas Ganev, Dr. Ec. Scs.
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The paper analyses the unprecedented coordinated actions to suppress the "free fall" of the United States and world economy. It then shows the role of monetary and fiscal policy of governments. The article reveals are the fundamental similarities and differences between the Great Depression of the 30-ies of the last century and the current Great Recession. It indicates the controversial results of the policies in the United States and the European Union and the emerging trend towards deflation.
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Characteristics of innovation processes in tourism and significance of innovation for tourism supply chain development are discussed. Main directions of innovation activities in the field are presented. The use of contemporary information and communication technologies and their role for diminishing expenditures and increasing quality and efficiency in the creation of tourism products and management of processes in the supply chain in tourism are examined. The importance of new information and communication technologies for raising the competitiveness of logistics systems in tourism and creation of new marketing methods and distribution channels is underlined. Principles of sustainable development of tourism are treated. The importance of socially-responsible tourism for the preservation of biological resources of the planet, of national idiosyncrasy, of world historical and cultural heritage, and for the support of socio-economic development of the countries is underlined.
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This article tackles two methodological problems. The first one concerns the definition and age boundaries of the youth population. It is still actively discussed in the literature and ambiguously solved in research and policy actions. The second problem is related to the measures of youth unemployment, which allow for manipulations through skewed usage of only one deliberately chosen measure or through comparisons of multiple measures with no account of their different content. Directions for a detailed empirical analysis of youth unemployment in Bulgaria are inferred. In the concluding part an alternative ranking of EU-28 countries is suggested based on an aggregate handling of three youth unemployment measures in the age interval 15-29 years. It differs decisively from the popular Eurostat ranking, based only on the youth unemployment rate.
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SCIENTIFIC LIFE: "Economic Growth: Incentives and Restraints", a most important issue for the economic development of Bulgaria, was the focus of an international scientific conference held on 6th and 7th October 2014 at the Economic Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ERI-BAS). This event was marked by the celebration of the 145th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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The essay sets out to explore the framework of the philosophy of friendship as a basic human relationship whose richness has not been exhaustively scrutinised yet. Taking as its starting point the memorable statement from "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" that "opposition is true friendship", the author seeks to demonstrate the fundamental and profound character of the relationship called friendship; the character which prevents it - despite its common understanding - from being defined as agreement, support or alliance. Friendship, by transcending those relationships, becomes a force which may disrupt and undermine their structures and thereby it comes to speak on behalf of desires and passions. This is why it may be called a 'counter-relationship': the notion itself alludes to a fundamental term of Blake's philosophy, i.e., 'a contrary' as opposed to negation. A friend is thus a restless being; a being without a permanent address; a being who is nomadic and denies to be unequivocally defined. It is Blake, as well as Nietzsche and Emerson (who are also referred to in the essay), who makes us appreciate this extraordinary philosophical and ethical phenomenon.
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The essay offers a view of modern European culture from the perspective of broadly understood 'returning' which constitutes an economic, ethical and aesthetic principle of the mythologisation of exteriority as the main, though not exclusive, area of the creative activity of the human subject. The sub-ject is discursively constructed as an e-ject born out of the bowels of its/his/her own contraries. In the latter part of the essay the author discusses Zygmunt Bauman's distinction between anthropophagic and anthropoemic cultures. Representatives of the anthropophagic culture devour their own species in opposition to the anthropoemic culture which is a culture of emission or 'vomitting', as Bauman has it.
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The essay attempts to answer three basic questions. Who leads the subject out of metaphysics? Who occupies 'my' position? What passes through the position called the subject? The first of these questions concerns the current tasks of the philosophy of subjectivity; the second one addresses the subject's functions in different traditions with particular emphasis on the incommensurability of Greek and Judaic traditions; and the third question is concerned with the effects of poststructuralist de-re-constructions of the subject.
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The essay is a perverse attempt at interpreting Richard Rorty from the perspective of a barbarian, that is, a person whom the author of "Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity" excludes from the conversation of civilised people. For Rorty, the basic criterion of barbarity is adherence to a culture which has retained distinctly pre-modern characteristics, i.e., those which predate 'the process of civilisation'. The author, by identifying herself with the excluded "barbarian", seeks to indicate the merits of the pre-modern paradigm which has been unjustly disparaged by the leading philosopher of American postmodernism. Thus the author wants to redress the postmodernist turn from a pre-modern position; by evoking those categories that modernity has made to sink into oblivion - e.g. ritual un-differentiation and the catharsis experience - she argues that they are a natural supplement to Rorty's 'call for universal solidarity'. Without this supplement, Rorty's call is just a vacuous declaration.
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Stefan Morawski takes as his starting point the problems with defining modernism and modernity as those two notions undoubtedly affect our understanding ofpostmodernism. While discussing four basic reasons why it is so difficult to grasp the essence of both modernity and postmodernity, the author emphasises their affinites and divergencies. Thus postmodernism can be seen either as a kind of self-rectification of modernism or as its decline/decay which must follow the modernist crisis of culture. Stefan Morawski argues that the phase of postmodernism we have entered now can be characterised by its dominant consumeristic permissivism which derives its impetus from cyber-culture. By bidding farewell to the culture we have cherished since ancient Greece, we seem to opt for taking over a destructive facet of modernism which developed under the pressure of modern civilisation.
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Despite the widespread interest in tourism seasonality, there is little empirical research on seasonal changes of benefits sought by visitors. Destination positioning based on seasonal changes of benefits sought by visitors is addressed in this study. A Northern Mediterranean destination, Portorož is taken as a case study to investigate whether benefits design different benefit-based segments across the seasons. Cluster analysis for the spring, summer and autumn/winter seasons was undertaken on delineated factor scores of benefits on a yearly basis. The study shows that visitors who search for similar benefits across seasons are related with different demographics and travel related characteristics of visitors.
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This issue of Društvena istraživanja is dedicated to Contemporary Challenges in Work and Organisational Psychology, the topic of the 21st Annual Conference of Croatian Psychologists held in Zagreb in late 2013; some of the conference’s invited speakers and paper authors share the results of their recent research in this special issue.
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Scientists have been including variables of gender and attitudes towards marital roles as relevant variables in most recent research in the area of examining work-family conflict. There is also a growing emphasis on using a dyadic approach in research involving marital couples as respondents. The aim of this study was to establish whether gender differences in the work-to-family and family-to-work conflict exist and to determine the relationship between these conflicts and attitudes toward marital roles and the dyadic measure of difference between marital couples in these attitudes. There were 354 respondents (177 marital couples) from the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina. They were divided based on their personal attitudes towards marital roles and the level of differences between them and their partners in these attitudes using a dyadic analysis approach. The results show no sign of gender differences in the level of both conflicts. Also, personal attitudes did not determine the differences in conflict, but the difference in attitudes between marital spouses did determine the levels of both conflicts. Those who were more similar to their spouses in their attitudes, perceived lower levels of both work-to- -family and family-to-work conflict.
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