European Union Political Economy (eBook)

Theory and Policy

Konstantinos Hazakis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
366 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6006-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The European Political Economy: Theory and Policy provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide on how the European Union works in theory and in practice. It thoroughly analyzes the policy making of European integration underlining the fundamental challenges for European Union and Euro area future.

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The European political economy: policy and theory, provides students, researchers and policy makers with a profound understanding of the theory and policy of the EU. The book covers in a comprehensive way the key issue areas of the European Union activity and it includes an analysis of all the important current developments in Europe such as the Brexit, the European Union sovereign debt crisis, the European economic governance problems and the macroeconomic adjustment challenges within Eurozone. The book also includes critical resources for readers and students such as review questions, appendixes, references and further reading lists.More specifically, the textbook explains thoroughly the institutional, economic and policy characteristics of the fundamental issue areas of European economy. It outlines the institutions and mechanisms of European union/Eurozone, the common agricultural, regional and trade policies, the impact of the single market and the single currency on European economy, the enlargement process and the key questions on the European macroeconomic adjustment process. In each chapter the book explains not only what is taking place in European economy but also which the feasible options of the European policy agenda are.The textbook enables readers to apply conceptual and theoretical knowledge to economic and political processes of European integration.

Autor

Konstantinos J. Hazakis is associate professor at Democritus University of Thrace.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Theories of European integrationChapter 3: The Historical evolution of European UnionChapter 4: The Institutional framework of the European UnionChapter 5: The framework of economic and monetary union (EMU)Chapter 6: The Optimum Currency Area theory (OCA)Chapter 7: The challenge of economic adjustment in EurozoneChapter 8: The common agricultural policyChapter 9: The economics of the European single marketChapter 10: The regional policy of European UnionChapter 11: The European external trade policyChapter 12: The Brexit questionChapter 13: Conclusions

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 32 Illustrations including: - 11 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 19 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: euroarea • European Integration • European Political Economy • European politics • European Union • International Political Economy • political economy of European integration
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6006-7 / 1498560067
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6006-1 / 9781498560061