Titanic 2010? : the European Union and its failed Lisbon strategy / Arno Tausch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tausch, Arno, 1951-

Series:

European political, economic and security issues series.

European political, economic and security issues series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union--Membership.

European Union.

European Union countries--Economic policy.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Titanic 2010 is around the corner: Is Eastern Europe really catching up with the West, and is the enlarged and transformed Europe really on its way to become, by 2010, the most competitive region in the world economy? Starting from the seven "cardinal sins" of the transformation process, described by Harvard Professor Janos Kornai. it is evident that the real income of a significant proportion of the population has remained unchanged,or even deteriorated in Eastern Europe, that a dramatic 'restructuring' has taken place in the area of income distribution, that the employment rate has significantly declined, public security deteriorating, corruption has not ended, and that there are disorders in the political arena with tax policies favoring the rich. Dissatisfaction with the "Lisbon process" of the European Union, Initiated at the European Council meeting in Liston, March, 2000, to make Europe the most competitive economy of the world by 2010, is widespread also in Western Europe, relevant optimistic recent voices from the Commission notwithstanding. So instead of achieving unity and harmony, Europe is drifting towards "transnational integration and national disintegration" (Osvaldo Sunkel). Schumpeter and later world system and dependency writers were always of the crises, cyclical imbalances, regional shifts, and of the rise and decline of entire regions and even continents in the process of capitalist development. At the end of the day. a realistic and politically useful analysis of the "Lisbon process" has to be "Schumpeterian" in its question writing.

Contents:

Intro

TITANIC 2010? THE EUROPEAN UNIONAND ITS FAILED LISBON STRATEGY

CONTENTS

PREFACE

AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY

ABSTRACT

GLOSSARY AND CONVENTIONS

INTRODUCTION

ON THE LISBON TRAIN - SOME SECOND THOUGHTSON THE EUROSTAT APPROACH, BASED ON A SINGLEFACTOR MODEL

IS THERE NO SINGLE LISBON PROCESS AT ALL?A FOUR-FACTOR MODEL

SOME NOTES ON THE CAUSALITY OF THE LISBONPROCESS ON THE EUROPEAN LEVEL

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THEEUROPEAN REGIONS

BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE AND GLOBALDEVELOPMENT - THE THEORY

BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE AND GLOBALDEVELOPMENT - THE RESEARCH DESIGN

"DESTRUCTIVE CREATION" AND GLOBALDEVELOPMENT - PRESENTING AND INTERPRETINGTHE NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

TITANIC 2010 - THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, R&amp

D,THE PROLONGED WORKBENCH AND THAT OTHERLISBON RACE

POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUSIONS

STATISTICAL APPENDIX

THE BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE INDEX

A PATH MODEL WORLD GROWTH AND SOCIALDEVELOPMENT

ENHANCING SOCIAL EUROPE - THE MINISTERIALDECLARATION OF THE "12" FOR A SOCIAL EUROPE

ANNEXSOME HINTS FOR FUTURE WORK

THE OTHER LISBON RACE:THE SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY RANKING OF THEWORLD'S TOP 500 UNIVERSITIES

DATA SOURCES

TUITION FEES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

SELECTED REFERENCES

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61728-595-1

OCLC:

665810514