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past or the eventually planned future, and the is a Macedonian invention – a mix of politics and
comparison with the others should show us our mathematics. Actually, the world knows about
success compared to the others. Here only one the mixes between politics and economy (politi-
comparison is insufficient too. cal economy) or the economic policy as an applied
economic knowledge of the country.
Our current economic condition may be sur-
prisingly good (economic growth) in regard to our In addition to these two mixes that everyone
past, however at the same time the others could knows about, Macedonia became a country which
have been much more successful than us for the developed a new direction in mathematics – the
same period of comparison. For this reason it is neologism “amazemathics (amazing mathemat-
good when trends are being compared, to per- ics)”.
form an analysis for some, to us, similar entities
(countries). Ultimately, with only few examples we shall il-
lustrate the emergence of the new mathematical
In order to illustrate this, we will use some discipline – a Macedonian invention which is only
interesting information from the past, actually used for covering the already performed econom-
comparison between Yugoslavia in the past, and ic-social distortions:
Japan in the past and the present.
- Macedonia is a world leader with the highest
The older colleagues would remember that in number of newly open jobs per capita without
the early seventies Japanese economists came to making a comparison of the published number
Yugoslavia in order to study the self-governing with the absolute numbers of the newly employed
socialism as a foundation for the great economic people in some, to us, useful countries for com-
(two-digit) growth of the Yugoslav economy. The parison (for example, the ones from the region),
Japanese wanted to learn from Yugoslavia!? It is
no doubt that the comparison between the two - The foreign investments are not compared to
countries is even pointless today – the first one the ones in the neighboring countries which have
disintegrated, while the second one is one of the a higher absolute amount, and in most cases, rela-
strongest economies in the world. tive amount as well,
“Amazemathics (Amazing mathematics)” - The indebtedness rate is calculated from the
– interpretation of numbers accord- planned growth of the gross domestic product
ing to the political needs of the inter- which has underperformed significantly in the
preter meantime,
We stop with the general elaboration of the - The pension contributions are paid as a per-
comparative “numbers” in order to return to centage of the gross salary of the employee, and
Macedonian ground. the increase of pensions in the past couple of
years is linearly performed, that is, it is fixed in
The general rules in our country get national equal amounts for each specific pensioner,
characteristics. What is the matter? We register
a mass occurrence of elaboration of numbers - For the residents from the flooded areas, a
in the economy in a subjective manner by most quarterly increase of the package of earnings is
politicians with the role of interpreters. We are published, for socially vulnerable people by 50%
witnessing the publication of absolute numbers without mentioning the misery of the amount
when this favors them, without making compari- that these people will get,
sons with the past or with other entities for com-
parison, or we are witnessing the pointing out - Linear advance payment is performed for the
of high percent when the absolute values which flooded people from the region of Skopje, without
would be used for affirmation of some policies are considering the amount of each individual dam-
too small. We would say that Macedonia is devel- age. Such a “linear methodology” would be used
oping a new direction in mathematics – “amaze- by the Red Cross as well.
mathics” – applied mathematics for interpreta-
tion of the linear compared to the proportional - There are no notifications about the obliga-
and the absolute compared to the relative, for tions of the country to the business entities, using
political purposes. the excuse that it is a matter of a condition which
constantly changes without a notification about
Let us clarify what we mean with the neolo- the financial condition with the use of a logical
gism “amazemathics (amazing mathematics)”. It date when a section would be made,
- There are notifications about the growth of
export without comparing it to the growth of im-
port…
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