The Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (Racef) celebrates the 19th edition of its international seminar on November 14 and 15 within the framework of the Barcelona Economics Network under the title “The company of the future: growth, sustainability and profit”.
With the conference on “the formalization of the company of the future” by the president of Racef, Jaime Gil Aluja, the seminar opens today Thursday during which the first title of the new collection “Contribution to the Barcelona School of Humanist Economist”which brings together the legacy of the corresponding academics and members of the Barcelona Economics Network (BEN). The first book in this new collection is “The Economy: profit at all costs or shared well-being” and is signed by Dr. Valeriu Ioan Franc, from the Romanian Academy of Sciences and corresponding academic for this country at RACEF . .
Racef has managed to be present in prestigious international scientific forums and created the international network Barcelona Economics Network (BEN), of an interdisciplinary nature, composed of 19 scientistsin addition to having created the new internationally recognized Barcelona School of Economics. It has also signed 31 international collaboration agreements with universities and high research centers on four continents, intensified by meetings abroad organized every year since 2004.
International connections at the highest level were possible thanks to Jaime Gil Aluja’s specialization in a field that had been virtually sterile since the beginnings of fuzzy logic, earning him the reputation of being the “father of the new theory of logic.” ‘uncertainty’. Thanks to these contacts, the idea of transferring personal relationships to Racef, transforming them into institutional relationships, could become a reality. Six Nobel Prize winners in economics are members of Racef: Robert Aumann, Daniel Kahneman, Finn Kydland, Eric Maskin, Alvin Roth and Joseph Stiglitz. Those most involved in Racef are Maskin and especially Kydland, who chairs the Observatory of Economic and Financial Research, created in 2009.
Besides Valeriu Ioan Franc, Mohamed Laichoubi, former minister of Algeria and corresponding academic for this country, also participated in the seminar which started today in Barcelona; Carlo Morabito, professor at the University of Reggio Calabria and member of the Barcelona Economics Netxork (BEN); Juli Minoves, former minister of the Government of Andorra and corresponding academic; Michael Metzeltin, corresponding academician for Austria and member of the BEN: Gorkhmaz Imanov, corresponding academician for Azerbaijan; academic Carlos Mallo; Erna Hennicot, former Luxembourg minister and member of the BEN; professor at the University of Rome Pierguiseppe Morone and member of the BEN; tenured academics Enrique López and Luciano Barcellos, correspondent for Brazil.
On Friday, Janusz Kacprzyk, from the Polish Academy of Sciences and correspondent for this country, will speak; Jean Askenasy, professor at Tel Aviv University and member of BEN; Konstantin Zopounidis, correspondent for Greece and professor at the University of Crete; Domenico Marino, professor at the University of Reggio Calabria and member of the BEN; Dobrica Milovanovic, dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Kragujevac (Serbia) and member of the BEN; Federico González Santoyo, Mexico correspondent; Corneliu Gutu, former Minister of Moldova and member of the BEN and former Prime Minister of Romania and member of the BEN Petre Roman.
