FROM STRONG ECONOMIC GROWTH TO REAL CRISIS IN ROMANIA – HOW BAD IS THE PICTURE?
The present crisis started in United States, the main motor of the present systemic crisis, as a financial failure. It spread rapidly in the economic area and also world wide. No economy was spared, and the emerging economies, among them Romania, were vis
La hausse tendancielle du taux d’exploitation (*)
La caracteristique principale du capitalisme mondialise depuis le debut des annees 1980 est la baisse de la part salariale, autrement dit de la part du Pib (Produit interieur brut) qui revient aux salaries. Une telle tendance equivaut, en termes marxistes, a une elevation du taux d'exploitation. Il s'agit la d'un resultat solidement etabli sur des donnees statistiques incontestables et qui s'applique a la majorite des pays, au Nord comme au Sud. Un constat statistique irrefutable Les donnees etablies par (...)
The development of biological systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, nature, and the natural system
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.