| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 500 pages) : illustrations |
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CESifo seminar series |
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CESifo seminar series.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Gauging and Explaining Economic Performance in Continental Europe / Hans-Werner Sinn -- 2. Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Security, Finance, and Accountability / Andrzej Rapaczynski -- 3. Europe's Venture Capital Institutions Are Good Enough / Richard Robb -- 4. Promoting Entrepreneurship: What Are the Real Policy Challenges for the European Union? / Anders N. Hoffmann -- 5. Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship / Robert J. Shiller -- 6. Europe: Cultural Adjustment to a New Kind of Capitalism? / Harold James -- 7. Venturesome Consumption, Innovation, and Globalization / Amar Bhide -- 8. Cyclical Budgetary Policy and Economic Growth: What Do We Learn from OECD Panel Data? / Ioana Marinescu -- 9. Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe / Bas Jacobs -- 10. Market Forces and the Continent's Growth Problem / Gylfi Zoega -- 11. Controversies about Work, Leisure, and Welfare in Europe and the United States / Robert J. Gordon -- 12. Revisiting the Nordic Model: Evidence on Recent Macroeconomic Performance / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- 13. Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization / Hans-Werner Sinn -- 14. Payroll Taxes, Wealth, and Employment in Neoclassical Theory: Neutrality or Nonneutrality? / Hian Teck Hoon -- 15. Economic Culture and Economic Performance: What Light Is Shed on the Continent's Problem? / Edmund S. Phelps |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
ECONOMICS/Political Economy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic indicators -- Europe, Western
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Econometrics.
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Economic history
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Economic indicators
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Western -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98008032
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| Subject |
Western Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Phelps, Edmund S
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Sinn, Hans-Werner
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| ISBN |
9780262295413 |
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0262295415 |
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9786613148070 |
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6613148075 |
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