Weber’s very important theory on the influence of religion economic behaviour was tested in societies which belong to different cultural and religious circles. However, due various socio-political circumstances, testing theoretical-methodological framework has been largely neglected countries where Orthodox Christianity is dominant. difficulties that arose during post-socialist transformation, ...

WE MUST FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION [En, Es] We honour the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, of the world-historic event of international significance, which demonstrated that capitalism is not invincible. The working class, the leading class of society with its allies have the strength to overthrow capitalism and construct the socialist socie...

This study contributes to the on–going worldwide debate on the future form of banking systems by examining the performance of a socialist ASEAN system—Vietnam—with four other ASEAN but capitalist and transition economies—Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and China. The study finds that over the 1996–2009 period, the Vietnamese banking system may have performed better than the comparator countrie...

After 1950`s, gradually the variable of human capital was included in the economic growth analysis .Foreign trade has also provided economic growth. Among other variables, which can be effective on the economic growth, are the country's economic and political structure and history of the oil or socialist system. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of human capital, foreign trade, ha...

Death rates for working-age men in European state socialist countries deviated from general improvements in survival observed in the rest of Europe during the 20th century. The magnitude of structural labor force changes across countries correlates with lagged increases in death rates for men in the working ages. This pattern is consistent with a hypothesis that hyper-development of heavy indus...

This study examines the relationship between socialist ideology and the current negative health lifestyles of the Russian population. We explore the possibility that Soviet-style socialism with its negation of individuality and individual initiative in health matters promoted the development of a passive orientation toward healthy living. Using a national sample, we compare the health practices...

This paper discusses the elements of socialist and post-socialist (un)employment and informal economy. A growing economic crisis and a reduced participation in the formal labor market in the newly-formed Croatian state in the early 1990s brought about an increase in unemployment and gave rise to informal economy. However, informal economy had been widespread even before, in the late socialist p...

To understand the evolution of the European Migration System one has to recognise that European states have again been facing significant changes in political, economic and social conditions over the last 20 years, which have led to a restructuring of their interactions. The collapse of the socialist system at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s was accompanied by the emergence of n...

M arxists have seldom been noted for much economic sophistication in their critique of the capitalist market economy. Marxist reasoning was essentially easy game for Mises ([I9201 1990) in his classic initiation of what came later to be called "the socialist calculation debate." However, later market socialist contributions to this debate were for a long time believed to have provided the defin...