Institutions in Crisis
Subtitle: European Perspectives on the Recession
By: edited by David Howden, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain
Series: New thinking in political economy; New thinking in political economy
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780857932112
Subjects: Financial institutions; Union européenne; Economic integration; Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01755654; Conditions économiques; UE/CE Etats membres; International economic integration; UE/CE Politique; UE/CE UEM = Union économique et monétaire; Politique et gouvernement; Crise financière; Wirtschaftspolitik; Crise économique; Wirtschaftskrise; Politique économique; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; European Union; Intégration économique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Institutional illusion and financial entrepreneurship in the European debt scheme; title: 2. A stock-taking of the impact of the crisis; title: 3. The Irish economic 'miracle' : Celtic tiger or Bengal kitten?; title: 4. Europe's unemployment crisis : some hidden relief?; title: 5. Europe's crisis of accounting; title: 6. Solvency II and the European sovereign debt crisis : the case of misplaced prudence; title: 7. The Eurosystem : costs and tragedies; title: 8. Fiscal stimulus, financial ruin; title: 9. From German rules to European discretion : policy's slippery slope; title: 10. The Euro as a hindrance to recovery? A comparative analysis of the Czech Republic and Slovakia; title: 11. Compounding agricultural poverty : how the EU's Common Agricultural Policy is strangling European recovery.