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Along with the economic globalization, economics must decode a more complex reality, to which classical answers are no longer helpful. Due to excessive abstraction and mathematical representation, the economic and social phenomena are partially analyzed and understood - after the delimitation from the political context that has driven and maintained them. We notice that, throughout history, global economic relations have always been altered by the achievement instinct or by the desire for power; that markets and natural order had been violated due to the interventionist factor which takes various forms: the state, the elites or groups animated by particular interests. That is why conspiracy theories can be starting points in analyzing our world, by underlying specific political and economic interests that govern the public decisional system. This paper aims to plead for introducing conspiratorial reasoning in economics; a reasoning that rejects total hazard and the limits imposed by the study of unintended consequences of economic phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultural phenomenon of Latinity was the subject of the Conference "Re-construing the Latinity" which took place in Sibiu and carried out to highlight many topics about the central concept, but also the so-called "Peripheral Latinities". During the conferences the main idea was that Latin spirit is not only the language as a vehicle of communication, it is also the link through which countries will prove the membership in this large community. The topics in the panels have included heterogeneous areas like: literature and language, theology, cultural studies, theater, communication and media, history, politics, economics, and medicine. The papers presented in panels reflected the increased interest for the manifestation of the Latin spirit in multiple axes of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unprecedented global technical and economic progress where the United States of America holds supremacy, imposed, in the process of globalization, the necessity of accepting a single language English as means of communication. As a result of the contact with the English language, Romanian current vocabulary has been undergoing, for more than two decades, significant transformations due to the massive borrowing of English words, some meant to fill lexical gaps particularly in the field of economics. These loanwords of English origin did not bring any change upon the grammar structure of the Romanian language but, nevertheless, they cannot be disregarded or overlooked. The present paper brings into discussion the issue of the importance English loanwords had upon the Romanian business vocabulary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper emphasizes the conceptual need for an agreement on reassigning priorities of competitive development from policies aiming at reducing regional differences to policies encouraging functional integration of a development area. The underlying rationale in shifting the analytical focus rests on the political-economic and socio-cultural characteristics of a habitat that indeterminably amplify or scale down the benefits of economic activities. The permanence of spatial developmental disparities suggests that the strategic directions of any initiative targeting regional competitiveness should follow the lines of (1) maximizing its competitive impact and (2) matching the territorial specificity. According to this perspective, the paper discusses an original theoretical construct and points to graphical representations of operational forms that may configure a policy of territorial development along four co-existent levels: (1) urban fields, (2) clusters, (3) development areas, and (4) disadvantaged areas. The main implication for public policy initiatives resides in smoothing the progress towards building up such a potential for growth. A selected list of recommendations is therefore advanced in compliance with the expeditiousness imperative, namely: (1) adjusting public policy interventions to geographically variable areas of development; (2) prioritizing financial assistance according to integration difficulties specific to a certain area of development, whose coordinates are described along variable geographical scales (local, regional, national and, possibly, international) and functional potentialities; (3) enhancing the complementary role of private and community interventions in developing the programming capability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper describes the use of CAPM and APT models in stock exchange analysis. The comparative study of the models reveals their advantages and disadvantages. The authors present the mathematical base of the models, the dataset used for the practical approach and validate the conclusions in an elegant manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the authors analyze the main aspects regarding the use of the multiple regression model in the analysis of the Gross Domestic Product of Romania, during the period 1990 - 2010. In this context, there are used as explicative variables, the values of the final consumption, gross formation of capital, variation of inventories and net export. Following the research, we have revealed the fact that this kind of model is not only valid, but also indicated to be used in macroeconomic analyses, because the value of the free term (as image of the factors non-specified in the model) is a much reduced one than the values achieved through linear simple regression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is divided into three parts. The first part, regarding the preliminary aspects, contain an overview of the commercial and non-commercial professionals, in the New Civil Code provisions. The second part defines the concept of professional and the concept of enterprise as a systemic organized activity and also the distinction between the commercial and non-commercial person, as the laws in force provide. The third part exclusively treats the commercial professionals [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]