1st Edition

The Economics of the New Europe From Community to Union

Edited By Nigel Healey Copyright 1995
    334 Pages
    by Routledge

    Europe is in a period of rapid transition. The Single European Market has been completed, and many barriers to the free mvoement of goods, services, labour and capital have been removed. However the moves towards deeper European union, with full monetary union by 1999, have proved more problematic. Outside the EU, the collapse of communism has added more countries to the queue of EFTA nations applying for EU membership. This book, based on articles originally published in Economics and business Education which are here extensively revised and updated, takes a timely look at the European economy. Lively and accessible throughout, the book will be compelling reading for introductory students of economics.

    1 FROM THE TREATY OF ROME TO MAASTRICHT: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Part I Macroeconomic perspectives 2 THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM 3 FIXED EXCHANGE RATES AND DEFLATION: THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM AND THE GOLD STANDARD 4 WHITHER EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION? 5 EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION: PROGRESS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS 6 WHAT PRICE EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION? Part II Microeconomic issues 7 COMPLETING THE INTERNAL MARKET IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 8 AFTER 1992: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT 9 THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF ENLARGING THE EUROPEAN UNION 10 THE ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 11 THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY: ITS OPERATION AND REFORM 12 JAPANESE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: THE IMPACT ON THE EUROPEAN UNION 13 COMPETITION POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 14 THE REGIONAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

    Biography

    Nigel M.Healey is Jean Monnet Professor of European Economic Studies at the University of Leicester and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Gdansk and Kent State University, Ohio.