Europe's economic dilemma /
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| Author / Creator: | Mills, John |
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| Imprint: | New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998. |
| Description: | xiv, 177 p. ; 23cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3029473 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1.. Introduction
- Why Economic Success is Important
- Low Growth and High Unemployment in Europe
- Political Pressures and Economic Ideas
- Europe's Critical Choices
- 2.. The Historical Background
- Industrialisation up to World War I
- The Inter-war Period
- Recovery Post-World War II
- The Common Market
- 3.. What Went Wrong?
- Oil, Monetarism and Exchange Rates
- Monetarism in Theory and Practice
- The Snake and the Exchange Rate Mechanism
- The Single Market
- The Single Currency
- Politics, Economics and Deflation
- 4.. Achieving Economic Growth
- Competitiveness
- Protectionism and Free Trade
- Recapturing Home and Export Markets
- Returns on Investment
- Changing the Exchange Rate
- EU Policy Mistakes
- 5.. The Goal of Full Employment
- False Analysis
- Misguided Solutions
- Reflation and the Trade Balance
- Expanding Demand
- Longer-term Solutions
- 6.. Living Standards and Inflation
- Devaluation and the Price Level
- Leading Sector Inflation
- Shocks to the System
- Too Much Demand
- Labour Costs
- Summary
- 7.. The Choices to be Made
- The Problems with European Monetary Union
- Alternative Policy Anchors
- A Better Future for Europe
- Bibliography
- Index
