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The anti-competitive agreements in the prospective of the law on competition protection - An inside in the Albanian practices and legal framework

Rezana Konomi, Zhaklina Peto · Commissioner, Deputy Chairwoman of the Competition Auth…
In Albania legislation on competition was developed only after the 90s and this is natural depending on the economic development and market model, which before the 90s had spaces of a free and competitive development. Competition is an economic phenomenon that refers to such a state of a free market…
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Oscillations in a Growth Model with Capital, Technology and Environment with Exogenous Shocks

Wei Zhang · Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
This paper generalizes the dynamic growth model with wealth accumulation, technological change and environmental change by Zhang (2012) by making all the parameters as time-dependent parameters. The model treats physical capital accumulation, knowledge creation and utilization, and environmental cha…
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Individual Assessment of Judges in Albania - A General Overview and Comparative Analysis of Career Advancement and Reward Systems Based on Performance Evaluation

Alaudin Malaj · President of the Court of Appeals in Tirana, Albania
Assessment of judges in itself is one of the criteria in relation to the establishment of specific rules for the career of judges, creation of a healthy judicial system and a proper one. Professional Assessment process of judges based on objective, clear and transparent criteria, has a great importa…
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Pragmatism and Political Pluralism - Consensus and Pluralism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
A pragmatist thinker like Nicholas Rescher deems the idea that social harmony must be predicated in consensus to be both dangerous and misleading. An essential problem of our time is the creation of political and social institutions that enable people to live together in peaceful and productive ways…
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Goffman, Parsons, and the Negational Self

James Chriss · Cleveland State University, USA
Erving Goffman’s emphasis on impression management in everyday life means that for the most part persons offer only partial or incomplete glimpses of themselves. Indeed, under specifiable conditions self-presentations may take the form of a negational self. If negational selves exist at the person o…
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On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr it…
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Artificial neural networks in forecasting tourists’ flow, an intelligent technique to help the economic development of tourism in Albania.

Dezdemona Gjylapi, Veronika Durmishi · University “Pavaresia” Vlore, Albania
Tourism plays an important role in many economies and contributes greatly to the Gross Domestic Product. In the past eight years, the number of tourist arrivals in Albania has increased rapidly, which resulted in increasing the number of tourist nights and revenue from tourism. Tourism also provides…