The authors of this argumentative article emphasize that the range of the current crisis cannot be depleted in the diagnosis which is based on cyclic consideration. It is both systematic and structural, which is derived from the genesis and the modus of neoliberalism, which has become dominant during the previous decades. Other than that, it is emphasized that the current crisis is 'great', because it forces relevant actors to face the structural characteristics of contemporary shareholder-capitalism. The crisis also puts to a test the self-reflection of the economic science which faces certain deficits. The authors believe that, given the tendencies in today's economy, there can be different scenarios for exiting the crisis and projecting a new modus of capitalism in the following period. Having in mind the openness of the present and the uncertainty of the future, the authors describe those scenarios without projecting which one of them will be dominant

The aspiration of this study was to examine the impact of foreign direct investments (FDI) and economic growth on environmental degradation in the Balkans for the period 1998–2019. Balkan countries were classified into two groups, high income countries (HIC) and upper-middle income countries (UMIC). Thus, two hypotheses have been set. The effect of FDI on environmental degradation was observed through pollution haven hypothesis (PHH). To examine that connection, we used Pearson correlation for all countries, HIC and UMIC. Furthermore, the impact of economic growth on environmental degradation was tested through the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. For that purpose, polynomial linear regression was applied. In order to examine the dependence of environmental degradation in relation to all predictors in the model, a multivariate linear regression was used. PHH was confirmed in Serbia, Albania, Croatia, Romania, and Bulgaria, the Balkans as a whole, and HIC, and the EKC hypothesis was rejected. This paper represents a contribution to a very scarce number of studies regarding the impact of FDI and economic growth on the environment in the Balkans, as a whole. The results of this study can be useful to policy makers in the terms of inducting stricter environmental rules.

This is a polemical essay that enters into broad dialogue with the contemporary literature concerning the dynamic of power. It refers to the appropriate material and results from the research of different theories. It proposes the constitutive position of the power in the international situation. In contrast to some current theories, we emphasize the importance of the politicoeconomical approach, denoting that only the methodology based on the logics of political economy can explain the dynamics of power in the international context. The main thread of this essay is that the international constellation is not a neutral environment, but a framework that is deeply determined by the power-relations. The central idea is that these relations should be explicated by the complex relationships between freedom and order. We analyze the interaction between the politics and economy as the constitutive feature of the structure of international context. This essay is divided into three sections. First, we are treating the meaning of order in an international context, in respect to the political-economic aspects of late capitalism. The notion of this order has a great importance in the economic reflections. The dynamic of the interconnectedness of global capitalism is examined considering the systematic aspects of power. After that we are analyzing different, and selected, aspects of the international sphere including: the spatiality of the world order, that is, the spatial aspects of the international dynamics in the context of globalization, the convergence or divergence between the capitalist and territorial logic, the ?legaleconomic nexus? in international ?chain?, the processes of the modification of the forms of competition within recent globalization, and the political-economic conflicts in relation to the regime of economic measurement. Starting with these considerations we explain the current debates on ?demondialization?, or the combination between neomercantilist and neoliberal policies.

The phenomenon of excessive investment, which usually goes into decline with excessive financialisation of certain economic domains or certain geographic areas, among others, marked the period after September 2008. Financialization is a term that is related to the change in the status of the financial sphere since the early seventies. Аt this time, movement of huge amounts of financial mass appeared on the world market. The difference between the average housing prices and middle-income income is steadily increasing, causing an increase in demand for housing. Therefore, the real estate prices rose enormously although rents stagnated. High interest rates and unemployment have led to a massive loss of housing those who were unable to repay loans. Financialization is still fueled by cheap money, so that the poorer turned to the credit market, too. Since this is a global phenomenon reflected in our region, it is presented on the example of the block in a residential neighborhood Stara Detelinara in Novi Sad. This paper analyzes the impact of a particular type of transformation in change of the physical and social character.

This paper analyzes the situation in the field of business planning in small and medium enterprises in Serbia, as well as the attitudes of managers towards a business planning system introduced in the enterprise. The aim of this paper is to determine whether the enterprises which have introduced such a planning system have it as a formal process, and if they do, is the implementation monitored throughout a year, and also, are any measures taken in case of deterioration of business and poor business results, in order to achieve more rational business i.e. is adequate monitoring applied in line with the feedback system?