Issue 1, 2003

Presented are the results of the carried out study in the field of the social infrastructure, which is one of the nine priority directions of the National plan for regional development (200 - 2006). Analyzed is the state of its key sectors (education and healthcare) on national level, as well as on level regions for planning. Revealed are the tendencies in their development, the main problems and reasons, which provoked them. Characterized are the differences in the network of schools (for primary, high and higher education) and of medical clinics, insured with relevant personnel, as well as of specialized places for providing social services. Based on the analysis are presented the generalized conclusions and views for solving the problems in those two sectors.
JEL: I18, I21, I28

The study presents the specifics in the organizational behavior of the insurance agent as a professional intermediator of the insurance company. In this connection are determined the main and additional functions which the insurance agent should have during the intermediator activity in the insurance. The focus is brought to the professional knowledge which the agent should have concerning the specifics of the insurance activity and of the changes in the market and social-economic environment. Discussed are the requirements to the professional and personal qualities of the insurance agent which are in the basis of the successful supply activity in the insurance. Studied is the influence of the corporate culture on the organizational behavior of the insurance agent. Analyzed is the state and perspectives of the agent activity on the national insurance market.
JEL: G22

The analysis of the interrelations between the economy and policy is significant in developing contemporary models in conceptual plan, applicable on macro, mezzo and micro level.
It turns out that the economists have to focus preferably on the applications of the economic theory of the policy and on the theory of the public choice, in order to enrich and update the economic studies and to optimize the connection between objectives, analyses and estimations.
It is necessary the institutional factor to be presented by the prism of the value and normative system of the society and to connect with the institutional determination and political rationality.
The study confirms that the political programs and political consequences should not be neglected and that the economists should include them systematically in their analyses.
Defended is the thesis that the analytical renewal of the traditional statements and the introduction of the interdisciplinarity will help the optimization of the institutional policy in its reveals on different levels.
JEL: B25

The industrial revolution provokes quality jump in the human desire to challenge the nature ruling. This creates the machine for self-destruction which destroys the social values and ruins the physical environment, in which the human lives in. It turns out that the social-economic development should be based on market as well as non-market principles, because there is a mutual determination between them. The study traces the problems of the society when the upper principles are torn apart, in order to prove that the industrial society builds an entertainment type of person, while the Christian-social model of society builds harmonically oriented type of person, counting the effective as well as the Christian values and norms of development.
JEL: B25

In this paper we have made an attempt to comprehend the processes of modernization of our social and economic system in the light of the integration of institutional agents in neoclassical theory. From the angle of methodology this approach implicitly presupposes the determining of the combined effect of market competition and institutions on the improving social and economic systems. In the context of the experience, whose bearer are modernized economies - similar to the ones in the Western world - we have elaborated our thesis on the hindering effect of the "collectivist epoch" institutions in accomplishing the profound change in our country. This change is directed from the "periphery", based on the retarded technological level, as well as on social collectivism as mutually conditioned phenomena, towards the formation of an environment fostering the demonstration of individual needs through competitive development in the global world.
JEL: B52, B25

From the point of view of the rapid extending globalization the national money systems and their interaction rise exceptionally significant questions. Their solution should be reached by the way of monetary sovereignty, currency boards, official and unofficial currency substitution or by the establishment of new global currency. The study investigates the general impact of the monetary sovereignty on the economic development. The accent is focused upon clarification of the monetary sovereignty, courses that urge nations toward monetary sovereignty or to reject it. The study also examines the economic development of nations under different currency systems: monetary sovereignty with powerful Central bank, currency boards and official currency substitution.
JEL: E42, O42