In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end - indeed it did not end before 1945. Both, domestic and international...

Policymakers in the EU member states are currently shaping rescue packages to prevent the financial crisis hitting their economies with unmitigated force. Each government is responding to the emerging problems with a country-specific set of measures. Given the global nature of the crisis, would...

This volume of contributions from some of the world's best-known international trade economists explores and analyzes the various aspects of commercial policy in a way that standard texts in international economics do not.

Part I: The Background to Trumpism and Economic Explanations -- Chapter 1: introduction -- Chapter 2: Inequality, US Survey Results and Economic Analysis: The Case for Structural Trumpism -- Chapter 3: Protectionist US Policy and Expansionary Fiscal Policy: Ongoing Contradictions -- Part II:...

Europe's cautious globalization / Philip H. Gordon -- Against domestic violence : the interaction of global networks with local activism in central Europe / Katalin F(c)Øabi(c)Øan -- Watery spaces, globalizing places : ownership and access in postsocialist Croatia / Pamela Ballinger -- The...

This book is among the first to systematically analyze and discuss the Chinese government's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative to promote infrastructure investment and economic development, bringing together a diverse range of scholars from China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The book assembles a...

Globalizing Europe examines the involvement of the European Union in the deepening integration that results as trade and transnational production link markets and economic systems across the world. This process is posing a unique challenge to European decision-makers to implement measures that...

The Closed Economy: Absence of a Deficit Target. -- Monetary Policy -- Fiscal Policy -- Monetary and Fiscal Interaction -- Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation -- The Closed Economy: Presence of a Deficit Target -- Fiscal Policy -- Monetary and Fiscal Interaction -- Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation --...