This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese...

Cutting red tape and improving business conditions have become a priority in OECD countries. This study of the Netherlands, one of the front runners in the field, is the first OECD review of a national programme for administrative simplification. The report describes the key features of the...

Allemagne : la résilience d'un " modèle " de référence / Martin Behrens -- Autriche : l'essoufflement politique d'un système consensuel / Patrick Moreau -- Belgique : l'adaptation d'un " modèle " de concertation sociale / Évelyne Léonard et François Pichault -- Bulgarie : syndicalisme...