National competitiveness and economic growth

the changing determinants of economic performance in the world economy

The current paradigm shift in the world economy is challenging the traditional competitiveness and growth theories with their few explanatory variables. This book offers a more holistic framework to synthesize the key findings of the various branches of competitiveness and growth research. INDICE Part 1 ...

Europe in the international economy 1500 to 2000

This thorough text offers a long-run perspective on the European economy from 1500 to the present day, and compares Europe's position of world dominance in the 19th century with its vacillating fortunes in the 20th century. Europe is set specifically within an international context ...

Bnaking supervision at the creossroads

This work charts the consequences for banking supervision of two stylized developments that over the1990s have characterized the global financial landscape: the integration of cross-sector and cross-border financial services. Both developments inevitably call for a supervisory response and the authors discuss what form and direction ...

Economic welfare, international business and global institutional change

Global economic progress in the 20th century, while generally encouraging, was neither continuous nor uniform. With the exception of some Asian nations, countries that were more developed at the beginning of the 20th century still rank amongst the wealthiest nations, while countries that were poorer ...

Economic convergence and divergence in Europe

growth and regional development in an enlarged European Union

This topical book addresses the challenge of economic convergence within Europe, beginning with a thorough review of the theory of growth and related empirical research. Historical and more recent economic developments within the present EU and current accession countries are discussed, along with the design ...

The Elgar dictionary of economic quotations

This book is an unique quotations on subjects of interest to economists and those who are generally intrigued by the social sciences. The coverage is not merely confined to economists, but includes quotes from essayists, jurists, philosophers, politicians, religious leaders, revolutionaries and nomerous other important ...

From economic to legal competition

new perspectives on law and institutions in Europe

Recent developments in institutional economics

In bringing together some of the most significant previously published papers by scholars in the field, this collection explores the major changes in the "new" and "old" institutional economics, the developments of new approaches and the extension of applications to new areas

Structural challenges for Europe

EU economic governance and globalization

It is through a gradual evolution, rather by grand design, that the somewhat fragmented economic policies of the EU now appear to be heading towards a rather more robust and coherent economic governance. This text considers the following crucial question as the EU enters its ...

The future of Europe

revisited

The book is divided into five parts, with prart one analyzing issues sorrounding the enlargement of the EU including criteria for membership, negotiations with candidate countries, and possible implications. Part two covers the euro and the EMU. In part three the author examines the major ...

Informal governance in the European Union

The role of international institutions in globalisation

the challenges of reform

This book presents a critical analysis of the role of international institutions and their performance in terms of justification, effectiveness an efficiency. The authors begin by dicussing the controversies surrounding the Tobin Tax in the context of global governance. They move on to address important ...

The handbook of globalisation

The concerns of this major new Handbook are two-fold; firstly, to redefine the concept to glovalisation and dispel the haze that surrounds it by a systematic and thorough examination of the debate; secondly, to push out the forentiers of current critical thinking on the role ...

Innovation strategies and performance in small firms

Exploring the scope, breadth and depth of innovation in small firms, the authors of this book employ an array of survey data to analyze the operating characteristics of dynamic small-firm populations. They investigate the strategies and activities that small firms pursue at different stages in ...

The economics of business strategy

This authoritative collection of the most important published articles on the economic basis of business strategy includes articles that illustrate the origins of familiar concepts in business strategy - the experience curve, the portfolio matrix, and the "five forces". It also presents the foundations of the ...

Contingent employment in Europe and the United States

Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be terminated with minimal costs within a predetermined period of time. This ...

Towards sustainable development in industry?

reports from seven developing and transition economics

Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this volume, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Turkey, Tunisia and Zimbabwe - countries which all have designated national ...

Rural poverty, risk and development

Throughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failre and skill obsolescence. This volume investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development ...

The property tax, land use and land use regulation

This text brings together essays by scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute for land use regulation and other policies designed to affect how land is utilized. Like many economists ...