The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis...

The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because they fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of ‘good...

The late Prof. Hans Van Werveke, in two very contentious articles, had contended that the monetary policies of Count Lodewijk van Male (Louis de Male) ‘had checked, for some time at least, the decay of the Flemish cloth industry’ by allowing its industrial entrepreneurs (weaver-drapers) to...

A growing number of Africans flees from their desolate economic situation or violent conflicts and political persecution at home to Europe. The European Union shares responsibil-ity for this growing economic misery, in view of its egoistic external trade policy. Neverthe-less, it intensifies the...

This paper sheds light on dictatorial behavior as exemplified by the mass terror campaigns of Stalin. Dictatorships - unlike democracies where politicians choose platforms in view of voter preferences - may attempt to trim their constituency and thus ensure regime survival via the large scale...

This paper argues that accumulation and growth both in Europe and Asia has been sustained by external factors represented by the international level of public expenditure generated by the United States mostly for military and political reasons. Both areas, although through different mechanisms,...

This paper aims to examine the difference between US and European manufacturing before and during the World War II, focusing on the key technology in the metal-working sector: machine tools. We present a new data set covering the installed capacity of metal-working tools in the United States and...

Az Európai Unióhoz való csatlakozást megelőző mintegy másfél évtizedben, kivált a csatlakozási kérelem 1994. évi benyújtásától a tagságig elvezető tíz évben Magyarország gyorsuló ütemben zárkózott fel az EU formális, főleg jogi és intézményi normákban...

A lo largo de los próximos meses vamos a ser testigos de las sucesivas reuniones que mantendrán los representantes de la Unión Europea (UE) con sus homólogos centroamericanos y cuyo propósito será el de sentar las líneas centrales que comandarán un posible Acuerdo de Asociación...