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Metody Kanev
ON SOCIAL REALITY, THEORY AND ECONOMICS EDUCATION
Summary:
The article is an attempt to defend the based on the Seneca’s maxim thesis that the present is to fix the past and foresee the future. Employing a broader socio-economic paradigm, it analyses the essence of societal reality and economic reality in particular; the dominance of economic considerations surpassed by time and the necessity for a more comprehensive education in economics. Finally, the solution to the problem is proposed through the enhancement of traditional economic scientific and educational disciplines with inter-disciplinary knowledge.
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Lyuben Kirev
Knowledge as an Economic Resource and a Source of Wealth
Summary:
The realisation of knowledge as a major factor in production on the one hand, and also its main product on the other, has provoked the necessity to clarify its nature as an economic category in a knowledge-based economy. This article examines the ambivalent nature of existing knowledge as a public and private source of wealth, the possibilities for transforming it from a private to a public source of wealth through “overflow“, and the pros and cons of possible paths for advancement in the field of research and development. Special attention has been paid to the characteristics of knowledge as an economic category: the specific way of expropriation, preserving usefulness and self-expansion in the process of consumption; changes in the nature and in the mechanism of accumulation and also changes to property relations in a knowledge society; inseparability from the owner as a personalised source of wealth.
In terms of content, the article complements and builds on the ideas put forward by the author in the plenary paper entitled, "Knowledge as an Economic Category” presented during the seventy-fifth anniversary conference at th D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics in Svishtov.
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Elka N. Syarova
CHANGES AND TRENDS IN THE EMPLOYMENT STATUS
OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES IN BULGARIA AND THE EU
Summary:
This research focuses on the ongoing changes and the new challenges faced by labor in the process of transition to a new type of economy. It is structured in two parts. The first part systematizes the main changes in the characteristics and requirements to labor in the context of the formation of a new economy and the transition to a digital one. The second part makes an empirical analysis and draws up the specific aspects in the dynamics of the indicators of the employment status of university graduates in Bulgaria and the EU which are relevant to the latest changes in the increasing imple¬mentation of more complicated mental labor. By applying methods of fore¬casting, the author brings forward certain short-term trends in the fluctuations of the relative ratio of the employed persons with a university degree in Bulgaria and the EU. The research implements the methods of analysis and synthesis, the means and methods of empirical-descriptive, as well as the econometric analysis.