Cesifo Seminar : Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies.

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.