The essays in this volume explore and discuss the process of dissemination of economic ideas among Europe's less developed countries and regions, as well as the interaction between economic thought and economic policy during the nineteenth century

This is a modern economic and institutional history of European grain markets. This book examines the markets' early regulation, their poor performance and the frequent market failures. Using insights from development economics and econometrics, Persson also extracts general lessons from this...

Provides an analysis of the restructuring of public service employment relations in six European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark and the UK. Each of the chapters on national systems are written by experts in the field and organized around a set of themes and policy issues

Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword vii -- 1 Accelerating the European Pension Reform Agenda: Need, Progress,and Conceptual Underpinnings 1 -- 2 The Making of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe 47 -- 3 The Rediscovery of Politics: Democracy and Structural...

An overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the pre-industrial period to the present. This book focuses on the defining role of gender and class and compares rates of change in different European countries

This is the first comprehensive evaluation of the Carolingian economy to appear in English in over twenty years. Aspects of land and people, agrarian production and technique, craft and industry, and regional and international commerce are analysed, and the Carolingian economy is reassessed in a...

There can be no doubt about the enduring significance and the immense historical impact of the national question, yet its economic dimension has been little examined. This volume deals with the national question in the light of specifically economic change against a changing social and political...

Understanding the complexities of change, generating as clear a picture as possible and providing a common language for discourse about change is vital to balanced and responsible economic growth. Whether from an individual company perspective or from a national or supra national policy...

In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one. Hart's book shows how nationalism and regionalism produced incompatible standards in the US, Japan and Europe, and led to missed opportunities...