Perspectives on the performance of the continental economies / edited by Edmund S. Phelps and Hans-Werner Sinn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phelps, Edmund S.

Sinn, Hans-Werner.

Series:

CESifo seminar series.

CESifo seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic indicators--Europe, Western.

Economic indicators.

Europe, Western--Economic conditions--1945-.

Europe, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These chapters, written from widely varying perspectives demonstrates the shortcomings and strengths of some methods of econmoics as much as they do the shortcomings and strengths of some economies of Western continental Europe.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Series Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States; 3 Europe's Venture Capital Institutions Are Good Enough; 4 Promoting Entrepreneurship; 5 Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship; 6 Europe: Cultural Adjustment to a New Kind of Capitalism?; 7 Venturesome Consumption, Innovation, and Globalization; 8 Cyclical Budgetary Policy and Economic Growth; 9 Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe; 10 Market Forces and the Continent's Growth Problem

11 Controversies about Work, Leisure, and Welfare in Europe and the United States 12 Revisiting the Nordic Model; 13 The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization; 14 Payroll Taxes, Wealth, and Employment in Neoclassical Theory; 15 Economic Culture and Economic Performance; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-14807-2

9786613148070

0-262-29541-5

OCLC:

738437885