Žinių ekonomika: kūrimo perspektyvos Europos Sąjungos plėtros sąlygomis

The Dura Europos Synagogue Paintings and Their Influence on Later Christian and Jewish Art

IZBOR IZ KNjIGE EKONOMIKA TURIZMA AUTORA SRĐANA I ZORE MARKOVIĆ SELECTION FROM THE BOOK ECONOMICS OF TOURISM WRITTEN BY SRĐAN AND

In memory of the role and the significance of Dr Srđan Marković in the theory and practice of tourism in Croatia and in other parts of the former state, and remembering Dr Marković’s contribution internationally, the Editorial Board publishes here three short chapters from the book Economics of Tourism (Školska knjiga, 1972), written jointly by Dr Srđan Marković and his wife Zora. In the prefac...

Use of Chemical Warfare Agents in Ancient History. A Case of Persians and Romans in Dura-Europos, Modern Syria in 256 C.E.

Background: Chemical warfare agents (CWA) were most notably used during the First World War in Europe, against Iranians and Kurdish citizens of Iraq at the hands of Saddam Hossein’s regime in 1980s and more recently in Syria. The use of CWA is banned under the international law. Methods: Ancient uses of CWA are not well studied. Recently, their use during the Persian siege of the Roman-held Dur...

The Appearance of Carriers and the Origins of Money

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the circumstances where a monetary economy dominates over a redistributive barter economy in which there is not an absence of double coincidence of wants problem. For this purpose, we develop a spatial general equilibrium model where individuals must trade with intermediaries to acquire the consumption goods that they need; exchange is costly, there is no...

Decentralisation: What Does it Contribute to? The Added Value of Decentralisation for Living Conditions in Core Cities of the EU

This paper investigates the effects of decentralisation on living conditions in core cities of the European Union. It uses data from the Urban Audit to investigate whether the level of local expenditures relative to central government expenditures has any impact on the subjective appreciation of local living conditions as measured in the Urban Audit Survey in 75 cities as well as the actual qua...