Society and economics in Europe : disparity versus convergence? / Savvas Katsikides, Hardy Hanappi, editors.

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 p...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Katsikides, Savvas (Editor), Hanappi, Gerhard, 1951- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cham] : Springer, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Shangri-La governance. A sketch of an integral solution for European economic policy based on a synthesis of Europe's problems
  • The convergence process and the volatility of the money and capital markets
  • Polish economic policy, internationalization, and globalization
  • A geopolitical and institutional model of Poland's participation in the new Baltic Europe
  • The main economic effects of Poland's entrance into the European Union
  • Socioeconomic development in Bulgaria
  • EU strategy on the governance of the euro area
  • Questioning the social efficiency of computerization in an enlarged Europe : the Lithuanian case
  • Bulgarian social partners and the information society : a cursory acquaintance
  • European integration and security in South Eastern Europe
  • The dual character of Hungarian labor relations : the institution of employee participation from a European perspective
  • Toward a new Cold War : NATO enlargement, Russia, and the Baltic states
  • A Kaleckian model of new orders of non-defense capital goods in the USA 1992-2010
  • The IT industry and the economic crisis : empirical findings from the USA
  • The Cyprus banking crisis : the bail-in strategy as a game changer for the too-big-to-fail mentality of the fractional reserve banking system
  • Conclusion: The birth of Europe.