The work attempts to comprehend why littering is so extensive and, with the use of several findings provided in Gary S. Becker's article entitled 'Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach', to explain why under current conditions more waste discarded in the environment can be expected. The...

The aim of this paper is to present how countries can be compared on the basis of the development of selected macroeconomic indicators. The economic similarity of the four founding Mercosur countries (i.e., Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), based on the development of five selected...