Europe, Policies and People

An Economic Perspective

By: S. Hatt (Editor), F. Gardner (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 April 2002 | Edition Number 1

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People in Europe have seen their lives profoundly affected by the policies of the European Union. The contributors to this book provide an overview of the EU within global capitalism, a survey of policies within key issue areas and a treatment of the economics of family care, migrant workers and pensioners. It concludes with an analysis of the insider-outsider dilemmas of the imperfectly united Europe. The book takes a social perspective on economic issues and is accessible even to the non-specialist.

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List of Boxes, Figures and Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
A People's Europe: Concepts and History
From Customs Union to People's Europe?	p. 11
Europe: the context	p. 11
European integration: economics or political economy?	p. 12
A lesson from history	p. 15
Markets or regulation	p. 16
The policy process in Brussels	p. 18
The people's Europe	p. 22
The people and European law	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 24
References	p. 25
In Search of Euro-capitalism	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
Definitions of capitalism	p. 27
Convergence in European economic structures	p. 29
Economic supranationality in Europe and the birth of Euro-capitalism	p. 34
Popular capitalism	p. 37
Conclusions	p. 43
References	p. 44
People and Business
European Business Strategy	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
Social, technological, economic and political (STEP) analysis	p. 50
Strategy implementation	p. 52
The impact on people	p. 62
Conclusion	p. 64
References	p. 64
Money for the People: Economic and Monetary Union	p. 66
Why EMU? The theory	p. 66
Monetary union: the economic impact	p. 69
Monetary union in Europe: winners and losers	p. 70
The process: creating a European monetary union	p. 71
The people's view	p. 75
Preparing for EMU: a comparison between Britain and Italy	p. 76
Conclusions	p. 80
Notes	p. 81
References	p. 81
The EU Budget and EU Citizens	p. 82
Introduction	p. 82
Relative national prosperity in the EU	p. 83
EU budgetary rules	p. 84
EU budget expenditure	p. 84
EU budget revenue	p. 92
The overall impact of the EU budget	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 97
Notes	p. 98
References	p. 98
Protecting Consumers? Regulation of Financial Markets in Europe	p. 100
Introduction	p. 100
The financial sector	p. 101
Regulating financial services	p. 103
Creating a single market for financial services	p. 108
A flawed approach	p. 109
A single European regulator?	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 113
References	p. 114
Moving People and Goods	p. 116
The importance of free movement to the European Union	p. 116
Free movement - what it means	p. 117
Providing for free movement: economic principles relating to transport	p. 118
The European Union and transport policy	p. 122
The European Union and the deregulation of air transport	p. 124
The demand for transport	p. 127
People and transport	p. 129
Conclusion	p. 130
Notes	p. 131
References	p. 132
Supporting Farmers or Consumers?	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
The rationale for the CAP	p. 134
The CAP regime	p. 135
The people and the CAP: France and Italy compared	p. 137
The CAP and technology	p. 138
The MacSharry reforms	p. 139
The people and the CAP	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 149
References	p. 149
People, Workers and Welfare
Caring and Working: The Market, the State and the Care Economy	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
Domestic labour and the economy	p. 154
Parenthood, paid employment and the welfare state	p. 156
Women and men in European labour markets	p. 161
Men's and women's earnings	p. 165
Social policies	p. 166
Conclusion	p. 169
References	p. 170
People in Search of Work: Albanian Migrants in Greece	p. 172
Introduction	p. 172
Greece and immigration	p. 174
The response of the Greek government to illegal immigration	p. 176
The migrants' reponse to deportation	p. 177
A precarious equilibrium?	p. 179
The incentive to migrate	p. 180
Albanians in Greece: implications for the EU	p. 182
Greece and the Schengen Agreement	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 186
References	p. 187
Europe's Demographic Time Bomb: The Challenge for Public Pensions	p. 188
Introduction	p. 188
Types of pension	p. 190
European Demography	p. 194
The problems of current schemes	p. 196
An evaluation of prefunded schemes	p. 197
Pensions in Chile	p. 201
Conclusion	p. 202
References	p. 203
Conclusion: Insiders and Outsiders	p. 204
Index	p. 212
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