ISBN:
1280493313
,
9781849803656
,
9781280493317
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (256 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Economy and Society in Europe
DDC:
306.3094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
While an economy is always 'embedded' in society, the relationship between the two is undergoing profound changes in Europe, resulting in widespread instability which is emphasised by the current crisis. This book analyses these changes, and in particular pressures of intensifying international competition, globalisation and financialisation within Europe. Combining the perspectives of economic sociology, political economy and political science, the expert contributors offer an in-depth, multidisciplinary insight to the functioning of a number of institutional arenas around which European econ
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The social dimension of European integration; 3. The political economy of social investment; 4. Gender, family and the labour market in post- industrial societies: A new social compromise?; 5. Academia's place in European capitalist systems and the Conservative reform movement; 6. Industrial relations after European state traditions?; 7. European unions after the crisis; 8. States in transition, research about the state in flux
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Changing varieties of capitalism. Societal consequences of spatial and institutional fragmentation in Germany and Italy10. The boundaries between economy and society in European cities; 11. Social institutions among economists in the wake of the financial crisis; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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