Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Translations and Abbreviations -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1 'We may join together faithfully to raiseour fortunes': 1 Britain's economic climate and the formation of the partnership in 1883 -- 2 'An English...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Part I -- 1 The Economic Origins and Dimensions of European Fascism -- 2 Banks and the Era of Totalitarianism: Banking in Nazi Germany -- 3...

This paper provides an assessment of the Polish funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for the accumulation phase. There are two elements that distinguish the Polish pension fund portfolios from other reforming countries: the relatively high component of domestic...

"Value Added Tax (VAT) is the backbone of the EU Member States tax systems. However, the rules for taxing Intra-Community delivery created opportunities for so called 'Missing Trader Intra Community fraud' (MTIC). Together with shadow economy' they represent VAT noncompliance - proxied by so...

The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the changes. This book analyzes Western European social reaction to the Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarnosc, Revealing how many...