Reveries

The Baltic Times kindly authorized me to make my articles available in my homepage. If you’re interested, go to http://www.janisberzins.lv.

I am against Latvia adopting the Euro, while it is an underdeveloped (developing, if you prefer) country. This is an interesting letter from a guy from the financial market, explaining why. If you want to read more, there is one editorial from The Baltic Times written by me, explaining more profoundly this question: “The Euro [...]

Since January, I’ve been writing some editorials to “The Baltic Times.” Until now they are 5: The Euro and its crisis: a financial or structural question?; Houdini and immigration: Latvia’s solution for economic development; Oligarchs and Economic development or how to be a failed state; Does the state have a role in helping Latvia exit this crisis? [...]

Watching Domburs’ Show while making some exercises, made me realise that Kampars’ voice is practically the same of Homer Simpson in ‘The Simpsons’ Brazilian version. Although an interesting discovery, this is not the most important thing one can realize watching tonight’s Kas Notiek Latvija. I just realized the guys are preparing one of the biggest [...]

Hi guys! This is one of my articles, this time to the Baltic Times. “It is commonly believed that the Chinese word for ‘crisis’ (Wei-Ji) is the combination of ‘danger’ (Wei) with ‘opportunity’ (Ji). Another interpretation is that the meaning of Ji in Wei-Ji is closer to the ‘crucial point.’ Whatever the correct meaning is, [...]

One of my papers will be published on the next issue of the Journal Humanities and Social Sciences. There I analyse the term Knowledge Society refering to a peculiar form assumed by the capitalist system in the last forty years, also representing its specific social, economic, ideological, and political systems. Although there is a strong [...]

Tautas Partija and its leader Andris Šķēle represent what is wrong with Latvia. Šķēle, Segliņš, Rozentāle, Demakova, Slakteris, Kalvītis, Veldre, just to cite a few, are very responsible for Latvia being in the situation it is nowadays. Of course the other parties also have their share of guilty. But none never united such a big [...]

Usually, I refuse to make any kind of advertisement on my sites. However, I liked so much the Book Depository’s idea, that I’m advertising them. The deal is they have very competitive prices and they delivery for free, practically worldwide. As usually delivery rates are very expensive (Amazon is outrageous), shipping and handle may be the book’s [...]

This is the English version of the article published in Latvian on Diena. Devaluation in Latvia and the fallacy of socio-economic development Jānis Bērziņš1 A lot has been discussed about the desirability of a devaluation in Latvia. The main idea is that through devaluation Latvian products are going to be more competitive in the international [...]

Development has been one of the most sensitive question in economics. However, in the last 40 years it hasn’t discussed properly, as reason gave place to fetish. The first point is that there is fashion in the Academy and it’s cyclical. Specifically about economics, in the capitalist block we have seen – in the last [...]