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This distinctive textbook combines comprehensive coverage of the key policy areas of the European Union with analysis of individual countries, including the recent accession countries and Turkey. Part I analyzes the economic bases for the rise of the European Union from its origins in the post-World War II recovery to its historic enlargement in 2004. Part II takes up the different nation-state perspectives on the EU's economic policies by looking in turn at all European countries, whether members of the EU or not. The book is unique in providing both an EU perspective and European nation-state perspective on the major policy issues which have arisen since the end of World War II, as well as putting the economic analysis into an historical narrative which emphasizes the responses of policy-makers to external shocks such as the Cold War, the oil shocks, German reunification, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

330.940559 --- BPB0801 --- 339.92 --- 339.92 Economische samenwerking en integratie. Tolunie--EU --- Economische samenwerking en integratie. Tolunie--EU --- European Union. --- E.U. --- European Union countries --- Economic conditions. --- Economic integration. --- Economic policy. --- International economic relations --- European Union --- Europe --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy --- Economic integration --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Conditions économiques --- Politique économique --- Intégration économique --- 331.30 --- 331.31 --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- Economische toestand --- Economisch beleid --- European Union countries - Economic conditions --- European Union countries - Economic policy --- European Union countries - Economic integration --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics

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Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and economic historians examine how financial innovations from the seventeenth century to the present have continually challenged established institutional arrangements, forcing change and adaptation by governments, financial intermediaries, and financial markets. Where these have been successful, wealth creation and growth have followed. When they failed, growth slowed and sometimes economic decline has followed. These essays illustrate the difficulties of co-ordinating financial innovations in order to sustain their benefits for the wider economy, a theme that will be of interest to policy makers as well as economic historians.

International finance --- World history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Financial institutions --- Capital market --- Banks and banking --- AA / International- internationaal --- 331.160 --- 332.109 --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Money --- Capital markets --- Market, Capital --- Loans --- Money market --- Securities --- Crowding out (Economics) --- Efficient market theory --- Financial intermediaries --- Lending institutions --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Financiële geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Financiële geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Financial institutions. --- Capital market. --- Banks and banking. --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Financial capitalism emerged in a recognisably modern form in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain. Following the seminal work of Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (1989), many scholars have concluded that the 'credible commitment' that was provided by parliamentary backing of government as a result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 provided the key institutional underpinning on which modern public finances depend. In this book, a specially commissioned group of historians and economists examine and challenge the North and Weingast thesis to show that multiple commitment mechanisms were necessary to convince public creditors that sovereign debt constituted a relatively accessible, safe and liquid investment vehicle. Questioning Credible Commitment provides academics and practitioners with a broader understanding of the origins of financial capitalism, and, with its focus on theoretical and policy frameworks, shows the significance of the debate to current macroeconomic policy making.

Finance, Public --- Capital --- Credit --- History. --- Europe --- Economic policy. --- Borrowing --- Finance --- Money --- Loans --- Capital assets --- Fixed assets --- Economics --- Capitalism --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Wealth --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Business, Economy and Management --- Public finances --- History --- E-books --- World history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899