"Controversies over issues such as genetically engineered food, foot-and-mouth disease and the failure of risk models in the global financial crisis have raised concerns about the quality of expert scientific advice. The legitimacy of experts, and of the political decision-maker…
This book investigates the EU's regional growth dynamics and, in particular, the reasons why peripheral and socio-economically disadvantaged areas have persistently failed to catch up with the rest of the Union. It shows that the capability of the knowledge-based growth model to…
Economic globalisation is a long-term international process in which the roles of the EU, ASEAN, Korea, Japan and China are of increasing importance. This book highlights the links between European Community law and WTO regulations. It offers policy options and also reveals cruc…
"Economic globalisation is a long-term international process in which the roles of the EU, ASEAN, Korea, Japan and China are of increasing importance. Trade dynamics and foreign investment, as well as regional policy cooperation in Europe and Asia, are discussed here along with …
Die Europäische Union hat die Mitgliedsländer auf ein einheitliches volkswirtschaftliches Rechnungswesen festgelegt. Makroökonomische Variable, welche die EU-Abgaben- und Subventionspolitik als Referenzgrößen benutzen, werden wie das "Inlandsprodukt" neu definiert oder wie das "…
This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative moderni…
