Society and Economics in Europe [electronic resource] : Disparity versus Convergence? /
Katsikides, Savvas.editor.
Hanappi, Hardy.editor.
This book takes stock of the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different countries on their way to a transition into a unified Europe. It demonstrates how the project of a unified Europe is a social pilot project that is unique in human history, both with respect to the sheer number of people involved and with respect to the cultural diversity it aims to turn into a progressive advantage. With no historical experience at hand, the transition into a unified Europe is an exploratory process, often risky but sometimes also surprisingly successful. To improve the chances of establishing a successful unification it is particularly important that we learn from the mistakes made so far; and that we learn rapidly, since the forces working against the pilot project of Europe will gain power very fast if the unification success slows down. And as the recent developments in Greece show, the vision of the final goal itself can well change during this exciting quest. Apart from providing the pieces of a mosaic on which a more general theory can be built, this book can be read as a collection of experiences – mistakes as well as triumphs – which should help the European learning process. The structure of the book mirrors Europe’s diversity: specific country studies are combined with more general chapters, and quantitatively oriented econometric work is combined with qualitatively oriented sociological studies.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Shangri-La Governance. A Sketch of an Integral Solution for European Economic Policy Based on a Synthesis of Europe's Problems; Hardy Hanappi -- Chapter 2. Convergence and Variability of Money and Capital Markets in Selected Eastern European Union countries; Kristis Hasapis -- Chapter 3. Polish Economic Policy, Internationalization, and Globalization; Marian Gorynia -- Chapter 4. A Geopolitical and Institutional Model of Poland's Participation in the New Baltic Europe; Janusz Ruszkowski -- Chapter 5. Main Economic Effects of Poland's Entrance into the European Union; Jaroslaw Kundera -- Chapter 6. Socioeconomic Development in Bulgaria; Mladen Maslarski.-Chapter 7. EU Strategy on the Governance of the Euro Area; Nicholas C. Baltas -- Chapter 8. Questioning the Social Efficiency of Computerazition in an Enlarged Europe: The Lithuanian Case; Kristina Levišauskaitė, Violeta Pukelienė, Jonė Šakalytė, Vytautas Magnus -- Chapter 9. Current Success, Future Headache: Economic Growth in Latvia; Martin Hansen -- Chapter 10. Bulgarian Social Partners and the Inform@tion Society: A cursory Acquaintance; Rumania Gladicheva -- Chapter 11. Regional Integration and the Transformations of Albanian Ethno-Nationalism; Pavlos Ioannis Koktsidis -- Chapter 12. The Dual Character of Hungarian Labor Relations: The Institution of Employee Participation from a European Perspective; Csaba Mako -- Chapter 13. Toward a New Cold War: NATO enlargement, Russia, and the Baltic States; Georgia Yiangou -- Chapter 14. The IT Industry and the Economic Crisis: Empirical Findings from the USA; Konstantinos Vergos, Apolostos G. Christopoulos, Quyan Pan and Petros Kalantonis -- Chapter 15. A Kaleckian Model of New Orders of Non-Defense Capital Goods in the USA 1992-2010; Evangelos Charos, Hossein Kazemi, Anthony J. Laramie and Douglas Mair.
This book takes stock of the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different countries on their way to a transition into a unified Europe. It demonstrates how the project of a unified Europe is a social pilot project that is unique in human history, both with respect to the sheer number of people involved and with respect to the cultural diversity it aims to turn into a progressive advantage. With no historical experience at hand, the transition into a unified Europe is an exploratory process, often risky but sometimes also surprisingly successful. To improve the chances of establishing a successful unification it is particularly important that we learn from the mistakes made so far; and that we learn rapidly, since the forces working against the pilot project of Europe will gain power very fast if the unification success slows down. And as the recent developments in Greece show, the vision of the final goal itself can well change during this exciting quest. Apart from providing the pieces of a mosaic on which a more general theory can be built, this book can be read as a collection of experiences – mistakes as well as triumphs – which should help the European learning process. The structure of the book mirrors Europe’s diversity: specific country studies are combined with more general chapters, and quantitatively oriented econometric work is combined with qualitatively oriented sociological studies.
Political economy.
European Economic Community lite.
Economic policy.
International Political Economy.
European Integration.
Sociology, general.
Economic Policy.