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Sebastian Buhai's Miscellaneous Articles
(mostly in Romanian)
NB. You can also find some of my opinions in interviews/ related
other material accessible via my mass-media
coverage page.
Selection of some more recent essays/ presentations (from 2007
onward):
Manifesto - in
Romanian and respectively, in
English - for the 1st Edition of the Annual
Scientific Conference of Romanian Academic Economists from
Abroad (in Romanian: 1a Editie a Conferintei Stiintifice a
Economistilor Romani din Mediul Academic din Strainatate=
ERMAS), co-authored with Mihai Copaciu, Cosmin Ilut, and
Cristian Litan, in December 2013. A brochure for that
conference, gathering several documents (the manifesto, our call
for papers, the final program, and the list of participants) can
be accessed here
in Romanian or here
in English. Full details at conferinta.econacademia.net
or, easier for only English speaking folks, at english.econacademia.net.
We also wrote a short
statement for the Romanian press underlining some of the
expectations for this conference (many of them fulfilled, a
posteriori). See also a
PDF list with links to press coverage of the ERMAS 2014
conference.
Detailed answers to what finally became an unpublished
10-questions "interview" requested by Romanian national
newspaper "Romania Libera", 10 February 2012 (in
Romanian)
An article entitled "Unii dintre noi vom avea atâta timp liber
încât ne vom plictisi. Altii deloc..." I wrote for
the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul in their series "5000 semne
ale viitorului", published on the 20th of April 2008 (some
info about the series in this article by Alexandra Badicioiu).
The article linked above also contains some biographical
information (both the article and the information have been
edited by the journalists from Cotidianul to fit the required
space and the format). If the direct link above stops
functioning properly (sometimes the html address is changed,
in time), here's a PDF version saved on my site. There are
also some more details and further references to the article
linked here in the comments section of this post on my blog.
Scientific Colloquium of Romanian researchers in
Denmark, at the residence of the Romanian Ambassador in
Denmark, Theodor Paleologu, on the 10th of March 2007. I
presented "Economia ca stiinta sau despre imperialismul
economic intre stiintele sociale"; you can dowload the
PDF presentation (in Romanian). I
talked a bit more about this colloquium on my blog (also in Romanian). And
you can also find something about this event on the site of the Romanian Embassy in DK.
Below you can read a few older (before 2007) articles and
presentations, on various topics, published in various Romanian
mass-media (online and/or in print format), aimed for the large
public. In general I tried to keep the order chronological, as
from most recent to oldest, but that is not always guaranteed...
Click on the pdf images next to the titles in order to download
the papers (or follow the links to where you can read it online).
First some short articles (in the un-edited version) published
within the Educational Supplement of the newspaper Gandul,
on the lives of several Nobel Laureates (that section is actually
called, in direct translation from Romanian, "the Nobel Laureates
are also humans..."). I don't know yet if I will continue with
this series.
John Harsanyi: O
Calatorie Incredibila sau "Daca Vrei cu Adevarat,
Poti!" (You can also read this from my blog)- this has not been
published in Gandul yet (or this is what I know, it sounds
incredible but I am actually never informed whether something
was published, will be published and so on- another reason why I
am not sure whether it is worth continuing- my 100% voluntary-
collaboration there).
Jan Tinbergen: Un
Om de Stiinta Coborat din Turnul de Fildes (I posted
this also on my weblog, here).
Jim Heckman:
Independenta, Perseverenta, Excelenta. Punct si de la Capat...
(You can also access it via my weblog)
I also published a very short economic article (the most
difficult part was to keep it that short) in the newspaper Cotidianul.
Snapshot
Economic al Europei in Tranzitie: Noiembrie 2005 .You can
also read it directly on their site (I also posted it on my weblog).
initially for the same newspaper Cotidianul but apparently they
did not like it (I say "apparently", since in fact I was
never given a reason for "why not", which is what I would have
expected from rational people) so at the very end of the day I
ended up just posting it on my blog.
Well, who's interested will find it, read it and- you're welcome
to, by the way- comment on it and on anything else that you find
on this page.
I continue with some articles that were initially published on
the Romanian online independent portal "Romania,
Libera in Viitor" (RLIV), within its weekly electronic
publication called "ACUM" (you can find all other articles I wrote
for RLIV-ACUM here)
and sometimes also in other places.
Highlights (especially articles concerned with science and
research policy in Romania):
Perspectiva
Candidatilor la Presedintie asupra Cercetarii, Stiintei si
Tehnologiei. Exemplul SUA, Deziderat in Romania
My questions concerning the status of scientific research in
Romania from the second part of this article (the essay was
published here, in
the RLIV-ACUM's "Research, Science, Technology" (in Romanian:
"Cercetare, Stiinta, Tehnologie") section that I founded and
maintained as editor until June 2005), inspired from the questions
addressed by the prestigious journal Science to the USA
presidential candidates and addressed to the Romanian presidential
candidates in 2004, were publicly sustained by means of open
letters, by the Ad-Astra
Association of Romanian Researchers (in Romanian: Asociatia
"Ad-Astra" a Cercetatorilor Romani), the Romanian
Academic Forum (in Romanian: Forumul Academic Roman=FAR) and
by several scientists of Romanian origin, including the Nobel Prize
Laureate, Professor George Emil Palade. Some accounts in the
mass-media and on the web sites of the organizations involved can
be read in what follows: press
communicate FAR, press
communicates Ad-Astra, open letter
signed also by Prof. Palade, other echoes in the Romanian
mass-media: Evenimentul
Zilei (also here and
here), Ziua
(also here),
Romanian
Global News (also here).
Two of the Romanian presidential candidates answered the
questions, Mr. Marko
Bela and Mr. Adrian
Nastase. A reaction of FAR to these two answers can be read
here.
Renasterea
Prestigiului Doctoral in Romania
This short essay is the result of a joint brainstorming of
several Romanian scientists working in research outside Romania,
voluntarily organized in a taskforce to help the Romanian Ministry
of Education in its planned reform of the Romanian High Education
and Research sectors- it summarizes imperative measures needed to
reform the doctoral programs in Romania and to consequently
contribute to the rebirth of the Romanian doctoral prestige. It
was published here, in
the section "Cercetare, Stiinta, Tehnologie" of RLIV-ACUM. Miruna
Munteanu wrote an excellent article related to this document in Ziua.
Conditia
Cercetatorului Stiintific: Intre Realitatea de Acasa si
Idealul din Afara
PDF
Presentation of the paper "Conditia Cercetatorului..." (plus
some other thoughts), at the Sinaia conference
mentioned above
Some people in the audience totally disagreed with me :-), but
that presentation got me something like 11 subsequent interviews
with Romanian TV channels and press...
Other articles published in RLIV-ACUM:
Scurt
despre Zei si Pamanteni in Context Autohton
Cum Clavis: Modul
de Alegere a Viitorului Papa
Opinia
Cititorului: Cu Trenul prin Romania. Partea a II-a
A Face o
Diferenta
Noteaza-ti
profesorii: www.calificativ.ro
Reflectii
(Utopice) de Duminica Seara pe Tema Societatii Civile Active
Opinia
Cititorului: Cu Trenul prin Romania
Cat de Fioros
Este Leul Greu? Despre Implicatiile Denominarii Monedei
Nationale din Iulie 2005
Consideratii
Subiective asupra Retoricii Publice: Logos, Pathos, Ethos in
Versiune Mioritica
Note
de Trecere, Mizerii si Dogme
Elitele
Autohtone: Conflict si Mediocritate (Pledoarie pentru
Cooperare)
Plesu
si Mancatorii de Sarmale
Un
ecou la "Elementele Nonverbale..."
Ma-Ia-Hii, Ma-Ia-Huu,
Ma-Ia-Hoo, Ma-Ia-Haa si Adevarata Muzica Romaneasca
Germania de Est:
Popularitate Ingrijoratoare a Extremismului Politic
Performanta Economica a
Presedintilor Americani in Perioada Postbelica
Talmaciri din Harry Mulisch:
“Descoperirea Paradisului”
“Cercetare, Stiinta,
Tehnologie”: O Rubrica la Inceput de Drum
15 milioane de Oameni
Fahrenheit 9/11- FILMUL
* Click on the pdf image next to the title in
order to download the paper.
PDF version saved on my site. There are
also some more details and further references to the article
linked here in the comments section of this post on my blog.