FROM THE EDITOR

Dr. Emzar Djgerenaia

This column has not appeared in our journal for a long time, because we thought that discussion and consideration of economic problems would exasperate and irritate my people who are already very exhausted with columns and theories.

Yet, there is a multitude of problems that we do not even try to solve. We have the impression that we attend to another business; like a river, economics more and more disgorges towards the abyss.
Envy, demagogy and politico mania intensified. Unemployment, obscurity and vagueness served to disturb people’s judgment so that they cannot make out who is right and who is wrong ? can we find bread and justice by means of demagogy or by means of hard labour. Whom should they follow ? those who promise correct and thorny way or those who proclaim “Hop and you are already in the paradise.” No, no, we still cannot learn sense. Perhaps, the people do not care who is right and who is wrong. Perhaps, they long for gas, electricity, peacefulness and work and do not care who is who in politics? They are mistaken herein. Good economic life and workplaces will not come by themselves like a season.
The people themselves create a society. As our savior says, when a grain fell on the surface of good land, it grew rapidly, yet it became quickly sun-dried. The grain that fell deep into the thorns, grew hard and bloomed.
Where do Georgians have all this envy and feud? Everything is explicable, but deceiving people by demagogy and leading them towards the abyss ? no!
The Georgians must get used to one thing ? they themselves must struggle for the better future. Those who promise people this future without the need of work, sufferings and labour, lead them to abyss and to perpetual civil war. It already happened, there is nothing new in it! It is immoral to sacrifice people for this purpose ? people who prefer a sweet fairy tale to the bitter truth.
And the bitter truth is that on the day of economy no economist will appear before the Court with any doctrines. The bitter truth is that scientist-economists do not tolerate each other, and the government does not tolerate them. Non-economists say ? where are you, economists, the country is ruined. And economists say ? non-economists, give up the battlefield, let us save the country. Time flies in this sophisticated polemics ? and the crisis grows deeper.
There is a disorder in the science itself. The precedent professorate does not want a new generation of specialists to grow up. In order to restrain the young they initiated multi-stage experts’ councils. We destroyed the USSR , but not the methods. We still like bureaucracy It is to common knowledge that in our country many people have scientific degree just for fashion. They cannot even write an article or distinguish one economic category from another, but they “defend” a thesis and become doctors or, to be more exact, theorists who try to instruct others. But will an article published by them become a filter in the ten international agencies. Of course, no! They will be able to achieve even this. The victims of it will be enthusiast scientists and the youth. Is there anything evil in it that people want to be doctors for their image? Their works will help the people, society to make out who is who. This would be the fairest way. Is someone afraid of the young? Is anybody afraid of sound political ideas in Georgia? It is possible. The new generation is not what it used to be before. So, make way for them, attach priority to gift and business. In this hard time someone tries to destroy Georgian scientists ? it is a shame!
There can be no talk of international referration now when in Moscow and Philadelphia referration costs 1200 dollars (post and other expenses). If you aspire to real recognition, you will need internet version and translation of publications into a foreign language, which will cost you even more. Our journal managed to do this and gave the chance to young scientists to make publication of their works (however, the experts’ council has not yet entered us in the register. The economic section has already submitted our journal for consideration. They will, probably, make a decision in October. Yet, how many of young scientist will be able to afford such a luxury?
And, yet, in these hard times anyone who is busy with books and work needs encouragement. No, we do have love for each other and for the country. We love only ourselves. The main thing for us is to achieve political victory. The most important for us is demagogy superficial struggle with it, attempt to create an image of a spectacled, thin “honourable” person in this political filth. People? What people? They are used to sufferance and patience. They will suffer again. They get used to everything so that consider sequestration to be a necessary measure. Sequestration in last year, in this year, next year. People really think that three things are necessary ? sequestration, tough reforms and struggle with corruption. People, economy? No one has any time for it.
It is time for the Georgian to become self-confident and to study the ways of constructing their country.