Europe in the New World Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

The 2023 edition of the Conference, was dedicated to the 50 anniversary of the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiri escu" of the Romanian Academy.

The transition from traditional economic patterns to a model marked by enhanced efficiency, environmental responsibility, and the adaptation to a "new normal" economic philosophy marks a pivotal moment in understanding Europe's economic ecosystem within the new world economy. Against the background of accelerating technological progress and national and global interdependencies, in the context of increased exposure to the risks of external shocks, the economic science, as social science, should be more in line with other sciences, on an evolutionary trajectory permanently connected to the processes of human development. This volume explores emerging research topics, methodologies, and techniques that are essential to understand the global economy dynamics and growth patterns under crisis circumstances and persistent uncertainties. The most relevant aspects up for scrutiny are related to new analytical economic frameworks tools and data, resilience in dealing to future shocks, digitalization and green transition, technological innovation and AI, energy system transformation, food safety and security, regionalization of supply chains, debt sustainability and fiscal consolidation, financial system and hybrid risks, synergies between growth, inequality, stability and environment, the future of work, institutional innovation, policy trade-offs and complementarities, redefining well-being and the quality of life, containing systemic threats, geopolitical tensions. The volume offers theoretical and practical contributions as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses providing valuable inputs for the design of adequate strategies and policies, aimed to address the future challenges and to capitalize on the emerged opportunities. The content of this book is of high interest to scholars, researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers, but also to a broader public audience.

Auteur

Luminita Chivu is Managing Director and Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu" (INCE), Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania. Her research focuses on economics of agriculture, rural development, labor market, economic growth, European integration, economic restructuring, industrial relations and working conditions.

Valeriu Ioan-Franc is Founding Member and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu" (INCE), Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania. He is also Executive Director of the Romanian Center for Compared and Consensual Economy, Director of the Economic Information and Documentation Center, and President of the "Pierre Werner" Center of Studies and Documentation Romania-Luxemborg. He has published numerous scientific papers in marketing.

George Georgescu is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu" (INCE), Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania. He has an extensive experience in various areas of economic research, including macroeconomic and financial balances, labour market, industrial restructuring, FDI, internationalization of companies).

Ignacio De Los Ríos Carmenado is Full Professor and Director of the GESPLAN Research Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Jean-Vasile Andrei is Full Professor at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Department of Business Administration and Ph.D. mentor in economics at Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. He is co-founder and scientific coordinator of the Research Network on Resources Economics and Bioeconomy (RebResNet).