Gabriel Staicu
Dr. Gabriel Ilie Staicu is an associate professor currently teaching Economics and Institutional Economics at Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. His research on growth and development economics, institutional economics, and economic education has resulted in more than 30 publications in scientific journals and international conference volumes. The research findings included in his PhD thesis can be found in the book Education and Economic Growth: An Institutional Approach, which analyzes the educational system in Romania and the need of reform in education. His ideas, close to the values of classical liberalism, can also be found in the pages of the book Capitalism: The Logic of Liberty published by renowned Humanitas Publishing House. This book benefited from moral support and review of some respected intellectuals from international academic world, such as Harvard professor Janos Kornai, New Orleans Loyola University professor Walter Block, Paris-Dauphine University Pascal Salin, and Warsaw School of Economics professor Leszek Balcerowicz. Dr. Gabriel Staicu has recently started collaboration with InTech firstly because they share the same beliefs and social values: open science, open minds. He is a coauthor of the chapter “A Study of the Relationship between Foreign Aid and Human Development” in Africa that has been published in the InTech book International Development (2017) edited by Dr. Seth Appiah-Opoku.