European Industrial Policy
The Twentieth-Century Experience
Edited by James Foreman-Peck and Giovanni Federico
Price: £111.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828998-2
Publication date: 19 August 1999
480 pages, 29 figures, & 1 map, 234x156 mm
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| - 'well edited and thoughtfully designed volume ... this is a book that could and should be usefully consulted not only by students and teachers, but by politicans and their customers, the general public.' - Alan S.Milward, Journal of Economic History
- 'this volume has two great merits: it provides a collection of case studies constructed along the same line of discussion themes, thus facilitating comparative analysis, and it offers a synthesis of a great deal of literature unavailable in English. Undoubtedly, the book has fulfilled its ask of rendering the future writing on the history of European industrial policy more manageable.' - Francesca Fauri, EH.Net, April 2000.
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| Description | | - surveys the evolution of industrial policy in 13 European countries
- inter-disciplinary appeal across the social sciences
- includes chapter on Russia pre and post 1989
- editors look at the balance sheet of interventionism
| At the end of the 20th century with stagnating industrial output, unemployment in many European countries has climbed to levels not seen since the 1930s. Interventionist industrial policies thus find new popularity after the gentle flirtation with liberalization in the early 1990s. Under the Maastricht Treaty, the European Union was granted industrial policy powers for the first time.
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present study aims to contribute to an understanding of European industrial policy by introducing an historical perspective. National policy continuities and the considerable time over which industrial performance responds to changed environments emerge with greater clarity in the long run. The chapters in this book take a broad view of industrial policy, including those policies that establish
the `framework', such as competition law, as well as sector for firm specific policies.
The overall conclusion is that improved framework policies, such as liberalization and re-regulation, are still essential. Monetary union in the `core' will increase tensions arising from economic inflexibility. Although there are often strong political barriers blocking implementation of appropriate
industrial policies, they will be even more necessary under monetary union. |
Readership: Academics and researchers in economics and business history; European politics and policy
| Contents |
1.
Industrial Policies in Europe: The Twentieth Century Experience
2.
British Industrial Policy: From Economic Liberalism to Socialism -- And Back?
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James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah
3.
France: The Idiosyncrasies of Volontarisme
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Jean-Pierre Dormois, University of Montpellier
4.
Industrial Policy in Germany: The Invention of Interventionism
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Wilfried Feldenkirchen
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A Century of Industrial Policy in Italy: Stalling and Surpassing
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Giovanni Federico and Renato Giannetti
6.
A Century of Swedish Industrial Policy: The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Model?
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J. Bohlin
7.
The History of an Empty Box? Industrial Policies in the Netherlands
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Jan L. van Utrecht
8.
Industrial Policy in Belgium: Liberalism in Two Communities
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Luc Hens and Peter Solar
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Industrial Policy in Ireland since the 1920s
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Eoin O'Malley
10.
Industrial Policy Under Authoritarian Politics: The Spanish Case
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Pedro Bablín
11.
A Century of Industrial Policy in Portugal: Paternalism and Poverty
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Joao Confraria
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A Century of Industrial Policy in Greece: From Revenue-Seeking Protectionism to Direct Intervention
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Ioanna Peplasis
13.
Russian Industrial Policy and Performance, 1890-2000: A Comparative Economic Systems Interpretation
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Christopher Mark Davis
14.
A Cultural Theory of Industrial Policy
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Mark Casson
15.
European Industrial Policy: An Overview
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James Foreman-Peck
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by James Foreman-Peck, Teaches Economics and Economic History at University of Oxford; and Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford and
Giovanni Federico, Teaches in the Department of Modern History, University of Pisa
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