The new welfare

unemployment and social security in Europe

This volume brings together a group of leading scholars to examine issues relating to unemployment and social security in Europe, focusing on how to promote employment and how to reform social security. The crucial issue of the financing of public pension systems is also addressed ...

The european republic

reflections on the political economy of a future Constitution

This text contributes to the debate on Europe's future, taking a political economy approach to analysing some of the underlying issues. It argues that collective action problems require a courageous step forward in creating coherent governance structures for the Union and that it has ...

The Politics of Europeanization

This book traces the influence of the European Union on domestic politics and public policies. Whereas the standard books on domestic politics and European integration look at different countries one by one, this volume embraces an innovative perspective based on specific concepts, indicators, and a ...

Aspectos financiero, administrativo y jurisdiccional de las ayudas de Estado en la Unión Europea

El tema de las «ayudas de estado» (en minúscula porque no comprende tan sólo las medidas adoptadas por el Estado, como entidad, sino también de otros Entes públicos, como las Comunidades Autónomas, Entes Locales, etc.) es un tema novedoso que surge con la integración de ...

The economics of enlargement

In this volume, well-known scholars examine the challenges facing the EU at the start of the Eastern enlargement, whose first wave should be decided at the end of 2002 and implementation in 2004-2006. This enlargement is not to be underestimated as it involves in the ...

The great deception

a secret history of the European Union

As the European Union moves next year towards adopting the constitution which will mark its final emergence as a 'United States of Europe', The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has for more than 50 years been based on ...

Européaniser les intérêts?

les groupes d'intérêt économiques et l'élargissement de l'Union Européenne

Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de déterminer les conditions d'émergence d'un mode communautaire de représentation des intérêts, en sélectionnant les groupes d'intérêt allemand et français des secteurs agricoles et électronucléaires dans le contexte de l'élargissement de l'Union. Les besoins de ...

Political economy of transition and development

institutions, politics and policies

The economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe has now entered its second decade. Although the post-communist countries shared many similarities at the outset of the transition, their economic and political experiences have been strongly divergent. Some countries succeeded in stabilizing their economies ...

La independencia del auditor en la Unión Europea

El control externo de la empresa se fundamenta en la Auditoria de cuentas anuales que impone la Octava Directiva a los países miembros de la Unión Europea y que se desarrolla en las respectivas leyes de auditoría de cada país. El problema de la independencia ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in EMU

interactions and coordination

Europe#s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is unlike any other case of monetary unification in history. Here, sovereign countries retain a large degree of fiscal autonomy while monetary policy is centralised and entrusted to an independent central bank - the European Central Bank - with a ...

Desafíos

la Unión Europea ante su ampliación

Comp. Jorge Hay. Obra realizada por la Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE). Con las intervanciones de Gabriel Tortella, Federico Prades, Antoni Castells, Marta Espasa,...[et al].

Economic and monetary union in Europe

theory, evidence and practice

The introduction of a single currency within the European Union in its present form is without precedent in world history and will have far- reaching consequences for the future prosperity of the continent. Economic and Monetary Union in Europe brings together contributions from leading specialists ...

El gobierno de Europa = The government of Europe

diseño institucional de la Unión Europea = institutional design for the European Union

La inminencia de una ampliación que pondrá a prueba la cohesión europea y la presencia en la agenda comunitaria de competencias de elevada sensibilidad política, como la política exterior y la seguridad común, en las que lo político predomina sobre lo técnico y la toma ...

The Asian financial crisis

crisis, reform and recovery

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localized currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies, long considered "miracles", respond? How did the United States, Japan ...

Pobreza, desarrollo y globalización en el sur del sur

Maukaku propugna que sean los africanos quienes diseñen y protagonicen su propia evolución, estableciendo unas relaciones democráticas en un entorno de libertad. En el aspecto económico defiende la potenciación del mercado interior africano (globalización interna) para así poderse incorporar en condiciones de igualdad al comercio ...

Selling China

foreign direct investment during the Reform Era

This book proposes a different perspective on China's integration in the world economy. Most economists view China's large foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as a result of China's economic success. This book views the same phenomenon as a function of the imperfections ...

Il WTO

cos'è e como funziona l'Organizzazione mondiale del comercio

Against the dead hand

the uncertain struggle for global capitalism

The handbook of country risk 2002

a guide to international business and trade

Study guide for international trade and the world economy