FLASH
Shkruar nga Irena Beqiraj
"Economics is simple. All you have to remember is that nothing is free"!
Economists don't have as many friends as they would like, and that's all Mitton Friedman's fault!
Don't you believe it? For an economist, Rama's paragraph is both funny and sad:
"This will happen to Albania as soon as it becomes a member of the European Union. A billion or so every year and 90% of the money is given away, i.e. a grant, and only 10% is a loan, i.e. a debt, because in the EU we enter a family that is divided into two parts: contributors and beneficiaries."
"The contributors are large countries, they are developed countries, they are France, they are Germany, the Netherlands and so on, who give more financially than they receive, and you need the EU, you need it a lot as a large common market, you need it a lot as a perimeter of values and principles and you need it a lot as a broad development area, while the other group that we will enter with our entry into the EU, are the beneficiaries."
So in the EU, it is the contributors, the developed countries, Germany, France, Italy, that need new markets. They work, produce, sell, earn and according to the CM "give financially more than they receive".
But in the EU there are also beneficiaries like Albania, they do not produce and are a market for contributors, even according to the CM "beneficiaries get more than they give".
Albanians are generally very happy and willing to "buy and sell" the naive thesis that they will benefit greatly from every contribution they make from joining the EU.
Do you need to study economics to understand what is hidden behind the vision "we will be the beneficiaries of grants"? Oh no! Our "wise even without a university degree" grandmothers used to say: "don't be happy with the fish because it pays double."
This is exactly what Milton Friedman, the father of modern economics, said differently:
"Economics is simple. All you have to remember is that nothing is free"! When Friedman said that "there is no free lunch in this world" he meant that - the 900 million euros in grants you expect from the EU have a cost, even if they are not always visible.
Well, every choice is actually an exchange! Listen to the song "Wear the dress with the toka" again. The dress, including the toka belt, was bought and given away by the boy who has it.
So don't lie to yourself, "This world is full of free things, they're just very expensive."
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