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The Economics of Europe and
the European Union
This distinctive prehensive coverage of the key policy areas
of the European Union with analysis of individual countries, including the recent
accession countries and Turkey. Part I analyzes the economic bases for the rise of
the European Union from its origins in the post-World War II recovery to its historic
enlargement in 2004. Part II takes up the different nation state perspectives on the EU’s
economic policies by looking in turn at all European countries, whether members of
the EU or not. The book is unique in providing both an EU perspective and European
nation-state perspective on the major policy issues which have arisen since the end
of World War II, as well as putting the economic analysis into a historical narrative
which emphasizes the responses of policy-makers to external shocks such as the Cold
War, oil shocks, German reunification, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Larry Neal is a Research Associate at NBER and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Founding Director of the
European Union Centre.
The Economics of
Europe and the
European Union
Larry Neal
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
Information on this title: 0521864510
© Larry Neal 2007
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of
relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place
without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published in print format 2007
ISBN-13 978-0-511-27402-2 eBook (EBL)
ISBN-10 0-511-27402-5 eBook (EBL)
ISBN-13 978-0-521-86451-0 hardback
ISBN-10 0-521-86451