Reporter and editor Mark Gilbert plumbs the origins of the sub-prime debt crisis, tracing it back to 'a silent conspiracy of the well rewarded' in banking, real estate, trading, insurance, investing, politics, regulation, credit rating, law, and economic theory - Provided by publisher

"Reporter and editor Mark Gilbert plumbs the origins of the sub-prime debt crisis, tracing it back to 'a silent conspiracy of the well rewarded' in banking, real estate, trading, insurance, investing, politics, regulation, credit rating, law, and economic theory"--Provided by publisher

The Engines of European Integration. Delegation, Agency and Agenda-Setting in the EU, by M.A. Pollack Le Fait Regional et la Construction Europeenne, edited by M.T. Bitsch NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain Reconsidered, by S.R. Sloan Privatisation in...

Books reviewed: The European Central Bank: The New European Leviathan, by D. Howarth and P. Loedel The European System of Central Banks: An Autonomous Actor? The Quest for an Institutional Balance in EMU, by B. Dutzler The Law of the European Central Bank, by C. Zilioli and M. Selmayr Europe in...

Underlying scholarship on the EU is the conviction that the institutions of the EU are the outcome of a historical process whereby national institutions are being superseded and replaced by supranational ones. The article criticizes this tendency, for two reasons. First, it argues that the...