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Raluca-Georgiana ROBU, Maria GHEORGHE (NIŢU), Valentin COJANU, Alexia-Maria POPESCU - Between Opportunity and Dependency: The Evolution of Romania’s Trade with Asian Economies [Între oportunitate şi dependenţă: evoluţia comerţului României cu economiile asiatice]

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Mădălina JURUBIțĂ - Redefining EU Trade Policy for an Age of Geoeconomic Rivalry: Strategic Autonomy, Security, and Resilience

Geicun MUSTAFA - Islamophobia as an Informal Trade Barrier: Reputational Risk and the Political Economy of Deglobalization

Hesam JEBELI-BAKHT-ARA - Racialized Capitalism and Economic Discrimination: The Case of Ethnic Labour Segmentation in Contemporary Europe

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Lucian CROITORU

Banca Naţională a României

The battle between the state and the market is everlasting. Nobody definitively wins this fight. The result of the battle is periodically re-designing the world and its economic environment. In this conflict, the attitude of the public matters. It changes, from predominantly in favor of the state to predominantly in favor of the market, and the other way round. Individual attitudes are passed, by vote, to political structures and, in the end, to regulations that aim at limiting and extending the role of the state. The economic crisis triggered in 2007 made many believe that a relatively long period will follow, where the public will favor a greater role for the state. I appreciate that, on the contrary, the public attitude will act in the opposite direction and that, for a long period of time, we will witness a gradual reduction in the economic dimension and in the power of the state.

ŒCONOMICA no. 1/2011

Keywords: state, market, public choice, economic systems, crisis, public policy

JEL: H11, H20, O10

O falsă problemă: compromisul între constrângerea externă şi imperativele sociale

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