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

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Description
vi, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    CESifo seminar series [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Gauging and Explaining Economic Performance in Continental Europe / Hans-Werner Sinn
    • 2.Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Security, Finance, and Accountability / Andrzej Rapaczynski
    • 3.Europe's Venture Capital Institutions Are Good Enough / Richard Robb
    • 4.Promoting Entrepreneurship: What Are the Real Policy Challenges for the European Union? / Anders N. Hoffmann
    • 5.Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship / Robert J. Shiller
    • 6.Europe: Cultural Adjustment to a New Kind of Capitalism? / Harold James
    • 7.Venturesome Consumption, Innovation, and Globalization / Amar Bhide
    • 8.Cyclical Budgetary Policy and Economic Growth: What Do We Learn from OECD Panel Data? / Ioana Marinescu
    • 9.Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe / Bas Jacobs
    • 10.Market Forces and the Continent's Growth Problem / Gylfi Zoega
    • Note continued: 11.Controversies about Work, Leisure, and Welfare in Europe and the United States / Robert J. Gordon
    • 12.Revisiting the Nordic Model: Evidence on Recent Macroeconomic Performance / Jeffrey D. Sachs
    • 13.The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization / Hans-Werner Sinn
    • 14.Payroll Taxes, Wealth, and Employment in Neoclassical Theory: Neutrality or Nonneutrality? / Hian Teck Hoon
    • 15.Economic Culture and Economic Performance: What Light Is Shed on the Continent's Problem? / Edmund S. Phelps.
    ISBN
    • 9780262015318 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0262015315 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2010035922
    OCLC
    660161917
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