The paper consists of three parts together with the introduction and conclusion. The first part considered the humanities in the perspective of humanization and explains why the interpretation of its ...crisis is not self-evident. The symptoms of the crisis are treated on the basis of self-understanding of selected actors thematizing such phenomena as is the situation in education, as well as the constellation of certain forms of knowledge that are indispensable in terms of political framing of democratization. The axis of crisis self-interpretations presents itself by the fact that it features a hegemonic form of economic rationality which “invasively” transforms the framework of the humanities. How can the humanities react to the situation? The second part seeks to answer this very question: what forms of reflexivity can be developed in order to resist the mentioned hegemony? The humanities contain idiosyncratic potentials that enable them to dissolve the ruling ideologies in terms of instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. “Economic humanities” are a form of reflection for the humanities that confronts the mentioned hegemony. The third part contextualizes the crisis-determined humanities through historical dynamics of abstraction and shows why the humanities care about reflecting on the modern finalization of abstraction on the occasion of humanization. Finally, the paper argues that, although the current expansion of abstraction affects the humanities, the crisis implies the existence of a space of possibility in which indecision exists.
The paper consists of three parts together with the introduction and conclusion. The first part considered the humanities in the perspective of humanization and explains why the interpretation of its ...crisis is not self-evident. The symptoms of the crisis are treated on the basis of self-understanding of selected actors thematizing such phenomena as is the situation in education, as well as the constellation of certain forms of knowledge that are indispensable in terms of political framing of democratization. The axis of crisis self-interpretations presents itself by the fact that it features a hegemonic form of economic rationality which “invasively” transforms the framework of the humanities. How can the humanities react to the situation? The second part seeks to answer this very question: what forms of reflexivity can be developed in order to resist the mentioned hegemony? The humanities contain idiosyncratic potentials that enable them to dissolve the ruling ideologies in terms of instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. “Economic humanities” are a form of reflection for the humanities that confronts the mentioned hegemony. The third part contextualizes the crisis-determined humanities through historical dynamics of abstraction and shows why the humanities care about reflecting on the modern finalization of abstraction on the occasion of humanization. Finally, the paper argues that, although the current expansion of abstraction affects the humanities, the crisis implies the existence of a space of possibility in which indecision exists.
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 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?
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