In this innovative study radical unemployment policies from Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the EU are laid out and evaluated with respect to their political acceptability in order to determine under what conditions they would receive a s…
Europa mit seinen vielfältigen und spezifischen Kulturstandards ist wirtschaftlich einer der größten Handelspartner der Welt. Viele internationale Unternehmen sind bereits auf europäischem Boden aktiv oder möchten auf diesem Markt präsent sein. Die damit verbundenen Anforderunge…
This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe, while paying close attention to the oeCD and the European Union as proliferators of new ideas. Three phases are identified: (a) a manpower revolution phase during the 1960s and 1970s, when mos…
Abstract: Globalization, financial liberalization and neo-liberal economic policy thinking have been seen as contributors to the demise of social partnership in Western Europe. Recent examples of the re-emergence of social pacts have challenged these assumptions. The book offers…
First published in 1989.
In the light of "perestroika" this paper reviews Soviet specialist writing and leadership statements, and looks in particular at how Soviet authors understand the interplay of cooperation and conflict inside the EC and the Western world.
This volume, one of a series of sixteen, features the forty-two paintings in The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum, that were collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman. Each is discussed at length in light of recent technical and art-historical r…
"Aladdin's Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato,…
