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Europe's Economic Challenge : Analyses of Industrial Strategy and Agenda for the 1990s.
Title:
Europe's Economic Challenge : Analyses of Industrial Strategy and Agenda for the 1990s.
Author:
Bianchi, Patrizio.
ISBN:
9780203402122
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (163 pages)
Series:
Industrial Economic Strategies for Europe
Contents:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ABSTRACTS -- 1 POLICY MIX AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGIES -- POLICY BIASES -- The pre-eminence of macro policies -- Proposition 1 -- Deregulation -- Proposition 2 -- Competition -- Proposition 3 -- WEAKNESSES OF PAST INDUSTRIAL POLICIES -- Transfer policies: degenerate forms of industrial policies -- Proposition 4 -- Inefficiencies at the centralized level -- Proposition 5 -- A typology of industrial policies -- Proposition 6 -- POLICY MIX -- Economic performances as objectives -- Proposition 7 -- Consistency requirements -- Proposition 8 -- FROM INDUSTRIAL POLICIES TO INDUSTRIAL STRATEGIES -- The importance of supplétive policies -- Proposition 9 -- Are selection procedures feasible? -- Proposition 10 -- Strategies at the level of subsystems -- Proposition 12 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY IN AN OPEN ECONOMY -- WHY TALK ABOUT 'INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN AN OPEN ECONOMY'? -- THE STATE AND THE MARKET IN THE EMERGING CAPITALISM -- EFFECTS OF OPENING A CLOSED ECONOMY -- CUSTOMS UNIONS AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT -- MACRO AND MICRO INDUSTRIAL POLICIES -- MACRO INDUSTRIAL POLICIES -- MICRO INDUSTRIAL POLICIES -- SOCIAL RULES AND COMMON OBJECTIVES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY -- INTRODUCTION -- GUIDING PRINCIPLES -- Socially incomplete decision structures -- Democratic decision making -- SPECIFIC AND TOPICAL ISSUES -- Privatization -- Inward investment -- Technology policy -- Regions and the European Union -- DRAWING THE THREADS TOGETHER -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN EUROPE AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD -- INTRODUCTION -- NORTH-SOUTH INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD CONJUCTURE -- THE GOLDEN AGE AND ITS EROSION.

DOES SOUTHERN INDUSTRIALIZATION CAUSE DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE NORTH?4 -- Industrialization of the South and deindustrialization of the North: the facts -- Conceptual issues and empirical analysis -- CONCLUSION: INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN THE NORTH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY IN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH -- Endogeneity of the European industrial policy -- Recreating the Golden Age -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MODERN AUSTRIAN SCHOOL -- CONSCIOUS COORDINATION -- CONCLUSION: INDUSTRIAL STRATEGIES FOR EUROPE -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY R&D SUPPORT -- INTRODUCTION -- Objective and rationale -- Background -- Incentives to cooperate -- Coordination incentives -- Incentives to overcome constraints imposed by market imperfection -- Disincentives and obstacles to cooperation -- A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS -- The issue of downstream cooperation: price raising versus cost-reducing incentives -- Potential areas of subseqent collaboration -- Incentives for downstream (non-R&D) cooperation -- PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN RESULTS -- Introduction -- The dynamic and indirect investment effects -- Strategic effects of CEC support -- Nature of SCAs -- Objectives of forming RJVs -- Market relationship of partners -- SCAs, partnership success and reasons for not engaging in SCAs -- Price-raising versus cost-reducing effects of SCAs -- CONCLUDING REMARKS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 DOES A REDUCED PUBLIC SECTOR INCREASE WELFARE IN AN OPEN ECONOMY? -- INTRODUCTION -- PUBLIC CONSUMPTION IN A CLOSED ECONOMY -- A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES -- JOINT WELFARE MAXIMIZATION AND POLICY HARMONIZATION.

THE INTUITION: COMPLEMENTS, SUBSTITUTES AND INCOME EFFECTS -- SOCIAL DUMPING IS A SUBSIDY -- PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES AND EDUCATION -- SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN PORTUGUESE INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- INTRODUCTION -- RESTRICTIONS ON MOBILITY (1946-74) -- AMBIGUITIES IN INDUSTRIAL POLICY -- INCENTIVES TO MOBILITY (1988-92) -- FINAL REMARKS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10 BRITISH INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN THE LIGHT OF TRADITIONAL THEORY AND MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- A SHORT ACCOUNT OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL POLICIES IN THE POST-SECOND WORLD WAR PERIOD -- BRITISH POLICY IN THEORETICAL CONTEXT -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ORGANIZATION -- The new competition -- New international trade theory -- Transnational corporations and competitive bidding -- Democracy and industrial strategy -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 11 TAMING THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CONSTRAINT WITH A SECTORAL POLICY FOR AUTO -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CONSTRAINT2 -- THE CONSTRAINT IS DUE TO AN UNCOMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING SECTOR -- A WRONG-HEADED POLICY FOR AUTO5 -- AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR AUTO -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Europe's Economic Challenge considers what sort of industrial economic strategy would prepare Europe for the next century. The authors examine the broad approaches to industrial policy and explore future possibilities for what is needed if these policies are to become reality.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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