Product Description: The Politics of European Competition Regulation provides an original and theoretically informed account of the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades. Applying a critical political economy perspective, this book analyses the establishment and development of competition regulation at European Community and national level since the 1950s...read more

Product Description: The Business Environment of Europe is the first textbook to provide a complete overview of Europe's business landscape, examining the region's diverse economies and government policies within historical, political, and cultural contexts...read more

Product Description: The international security challenges facing European governments are more complex than ever. In parallel, the economic recession has forced governments to make difficult choices in their defense budgets that will greatly affect their near- and long-term military capabilities...read more

Product Description: It is widely admitted that markets are the main driving force of the economy but governments' intervention could, in some circumstances, improve on their outcomes. This book provides a structured analysis relating theoretical arguments, implementation approaches and effectiveness of industrial policy...read more

Product Description: The modern industrial states desperately need more competition in order to generate growth and employment. Although the European Union pushed its member states to open several sectors to competition, there is much left to be done...read more

Product Description: This study, a successor volume to "European Industries", brings together a number of in-depth and authoritative studies of key European industries, providing insights into their nature and characteristics. Each case study examines the development, structure, behaviour and performance of the industry in question, and explores competition and other policy issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume is essential reading for all those interested in emergent developments in Europe. At a time when the forces of globalization are demanding industrial and organizational transformations throughout industrialized and industrializing nations, the book also makes a notable contribution through its unique analysis of the complexities, diversities and socio-political embeddedness of such major change. Focusing particularly on central and eastern Europe, the contributors examine the economic management activities of state agencies in the move from command to market economies and the attempted creation of viable firms for such economies. They look at the changing roles of different interest groups and the various forms

Product Description: Using meanigful quantitative data, the authors address the deterioration and divergence of economic performance across Europe since 1973. They look at: attempts to improve domestic competitiveness; labour market deregulation; the impact of research and development on economic success; comparative analysis of state expenditure and debt; the military economy and the social consequences of industrialism and industrial restructuring...read more

Product Description: Europe's Economic Challenge considers what sort of industrial economic strategy would prepare Europe for the next century. The authors examine the broad approaches to industrial policy and explore future possibilities for what is needed if these policies are to become reality.

Product Description: These essays examine issues connected with the roles played by state and market in a number of West European countries. The focus ranges across issues of public policy, party ideology and public opinion. Specific issues dealt with include policy and ideology in social democratic parties...read more

Product Description: This book deals with strategic adaptations at corporate, industry and governmentlevels to the development of the Single European Market. The underlying theme is that internalization processes concerning industrial activities, especially those of the already large international corporations both influence and are influenced by the European Community development...read more

Product Description: The development of the welfare state has been accompanied by greater freedom being granted to workers in industrialized capitalist countries. The themes of this probing volume concern how governments, employers, trade unions, and workers have acted to promote economic growth and accountability with active industrial policies and forms of co-determination, worker self-management, and/or employee ownership...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Privatization and corporatism along with pluralist forms of adaptation have received much attention as strategies for coping with the transformation of mature industrial economics. Yet, the burgeoning literature on this topic has, until now, lacked an adequate account of the determinants of a government's choice between such strategies or of the relationships between these strategies and the Keynesian economic framework that predominated in the postwar era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers new and radical views on British industrial decline and policies to remedy it.

Product Description: Book by Duchene, Francois, Shepherd, Geoffrey

Product Description: Book by Harold L. Wilensky, Lowell Turner