The author started by analysing works of several proponents of socio-economic models (P.A. Hall, D. Soskice, B. Amable). Then he proceeded with giving general characteristics of Latin American states. Finally, he dwelled upon the modern Latin American economic model. It is characterised by the...

This paper aims to explain the Italian system peculiarities which cast some doubts on convergence of national corporate governance systems. Italian non-financial companies listed on the Stock Exchange play a relatively small role. Most Italian companies are organised as formal or informal...

The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns. On this basis the author proposes a definition of precarity that goes far beyond...

This paper synthesizes, in one Leontief economic model, the arguments of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth by Roemer (1982,1986) and of the power relationship between employers and employees concerning the labor extraction by Boyles and Gintis (1988,1990). The author introduces the...

This article is referred to the general direction of the economic policy adopted by the member states in year 1999. It is considered in the mixture of measures mainly aimed at contributing to growth, employment and stability, on the basis of a monetary policy. These policies, that are referred...

The aim of the paper is to endorse the principle, recurrent in non-profit literature, that the third sector is an institution that supports the development process of economic systems. The third sector is considered as an institution that –favors, transmits and cements– the role of social...

Structural violence is rarely seen as a form of genocide. Significant deficiencies in existing conceptualizations of both genocide and structural violence suggest that this is unwarranted. The concept of genocide must be expanded to include a wider variety of target human groups, whereas the...

The current study sets out to analyze the cooperative sector throughout several decades, both in the European and the Romanian area. After a presentation of the definitions and characteristics specific to the cooperative societies, as well as the principles and methods of the cooperative...