Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union

This collection of essays is a state-of-the-art analysis of key issues confronting the European Union. Identifying European economic integration as one of the defining features of modern international economics, the authors examine many aspects and consequences of this integration which remain as yet obscure and unexplored.

In this book, after addressing general issues concerned with European integration, the authors include empirical and theoretical analyses of the monetary union, social policy reform and social union, public finance in the EU, the EU's agriculture and technology policies, and direct foreign investment into the EU. In particular, the volume includes detailed discussion of Greek membership of the EU, supplying a context in which many of the general issues of industrial adjustment, investment and politics can be examined.

Using a wide range of topics, methodologies and perspectives, Economic Integration and Public Policy in the European Union offers a stimulating and wide-ranging presentation which will be of interest to economic theorists, empirical social scientists, policymakers and the informed general reader.

Edited by the late Christos C. Paraskevopoulos, formerly Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, York University, Canada and President, Athenian Policy Forum Inc., Ricardo Grinspun, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), York University, Canada and Theodore Georgakopoulos, Jean Monnet Professor and Chair, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece