Perspectives on the performance of the continental economies / / edited by Edmund S. Phelps and Hans-Werner Sinn

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (511 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.94
• Soggetto topico: Economic indicators - Europe, Western
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Western Economic conditions 1945-
• Soggetto non controllato: ECONOMICS/Political Economy
• Altri autori: PhelpsEdmund S SinnHans-Werner
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Perspectives on the performance of the continental economies
• ISBN: 1-283-14807-2; 9786613148070; 0-262-29541-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820401303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: CESifo seminar series.