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Vlad Tarko

Vlad Tarko

  • PhD Fellow

Vlad Tarko’s background includes working for several years for the Center for Institutional Analysis and Development (CADI) in Bucharest, the largest pro-market think-tank in Romania, and having degrees in physics, with a focus on thermodynamics and complexity theory (Master specialization in the analysis of non-linear phenomena in plasma). Prior to being hired at CADI, he worked as a science journalist for Softpedia, for which he wrote numerous daily news articles and more than 30 in-depth articles. Vlad has published articles in the International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, Governance, and Futures. His main research interests are institutional theory, comparative economic systems and the normative interface between political economy and social philosophy.

Published Research

Book Review: Mark Pennington, Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy

Vlad Tarko | Jan 15, 2013
It often seems that everyone's political beliefs today are shaped by their fear of what would happen if classical liberalism would happen. What one thinks about the proper role of the state as a manager of various issues is derived from one's fear of what the emergent market and social outcome would be in the absence of those interventions.

State Capitalism and the Rent-Seeking Conjecture

Paul Dragos Aligica, Vlad Tarko | Nov 01, 2012
The notion that state capitalism (an economic system “in which the state functions as the leading economic actor and uses markets primarily for political gain”) is a new form of capitalism emerging in the global arena has been recently advanced by several authors. This paper explores the problem of the nature of this system in the light of these claims to novelty.

Polycentricity

Paul Dragos Aligica, Vlad Tarko | Apr 2012
The article overviews and elaborates the concept of polycentricity, defined as a structural feature of social systems of many decision centers having limited and autonomous prerogatives and operating under an overarching set of rules.

Can Probability Theory Deal with Entrepreneurship?

Vlad Tarko | Jan 01, 2012
Both Austrian and Bayesian authors view the common knowledge assumption as an unrealistic and unnecessary restriction. This coincidence of concerns leads to a joint theory of entrepreneurship.
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