In order to promote the wealth of nations, what should be the relationship between the visible hand of the state and the invisible hand of the market?
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
The decline of social democracy in Europe during the last decade is one of the examples which seem to show that there is no other global alternative for a state regulation under the market in the globalisation context. The predominance of the market in a political economy is not recent. Adam...
Should Britain join the European Single Currency?
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The history of Britain's integration into the European Union has always been very complex. Its first attempt to join was vetoed in 1963. Britain joined finally in 1973 with the departure of the French president Charles De Gaulle who was opposed to the presence of an Anglo-Saxon "Trojan horse"...
The European Monetary Union. Why and how it has happened?
Essay - 9 pages - Economy general
The idea of creating a huge integrated area in Europe, known as the European Economic Community, was born in 1954. Almost half a century later, the European Monetary Union became the most well-known example of financial and monetary integration in the world. According to Bela Belassa, a Hungarian...
Why Africa can not reach sustained development. What kind of Future for Africa.
Essay - 16 pages - Economy general
Africa, a continent endowed with immense natural and human resources as well as great cultural, ecological and economic diversity, remains underdeveloped for many years. Almost all the African nations suffered (and still suffer) from military dictatorships, corruption, civil unrest and war,...
The current situation of small scale coffee production in Latin America - published: 22/01/2005
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
Recently, the global coffee market has fallen into a profound crisis. Prices paid to coffee producers in real dollar terms, have fallen to a hundred year low. Many families have been forced to abandon traditional farming. There is consequently an important wave of unemployment in the farming...
The current situation of small scale coffee production in Latin America
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
Recently, the global coffee market has fallen into a profound crisis. Prices paid to coffee producers in real dollar terms, have fallen to a hundred year low. Many families have been forced to abandon traditional farming. There is consequently an important wave of unemployment in the farming...
Poverty and Income Inequality - Impacts of the EU-enlargement on social unprivileged population groups in the EU-15 Countries
Essay - 14 pages - Economy general
The European Union is a community of 15 sovereign countries. In the year 1952 France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg decided to establish the European Coal and Steel Community. The aim of this paper is to discuss the two problems with regard to the expansion of the European...
Why didn't Sweden, Denmark and England abandon their national currency and opt for the Euro?
Essay - 13 pages - Economy general
The adoption of the single Euro currency by twelve countries is an unprecedented event in the history of The European Union. In fact the loss of its own currency as a symbol of sovereignty and the giving up of the pursuit of an independent economic and budgetary policy represents a major change....
Free movement of people after EU enlargement : threat or necessity?
Worksheets - 11 pages - Economy general
Free movement of individuals is one of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by Community law and includes the right to live and work in another Member State. The right to free movement within the Community does not only address the workers, as it relates to other categories of the public like...
Examine why employment policy in the EU operates via the open method of coordination - Assess the merits of this method of coordination as applied to the European Employment Strategy.
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
Many have argued that the creation of a common European framework in the area of employment policy could influence and transform existing domestic legislations, policies, politics, and administrative structures. For example, European member States may have to restructure existing institutions,...
Pros and cons for the UK to join the Single currency
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
For many people, in favour of the EMU and the sceptics of EMU alike, the single currency points is inescapably part of the political union. Looking at past history, monetary unions linking independent states of dissimilar size and power (like that of Belgium and Luxembourg today) have not been...
The debt crisis
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
The debt crisis was triggered exactly 20 years ago when Mexico suspended its payments in 1982. This started off the worst financial crisis since 1931. Other than being a serious problem for developing countries whose Foreign Reserves and foreign investments withered away it also became a threat...
Nuclear energy
Worksheets - 6 pages - Economy general
Nuclear energy has far to many negative problems than advantages. From the mining of uranium to disposal of nuclear waist there are problems of such magnitude that no scientist on this earth has an answer for. Nuclear energy has so many problems associated to it that it should be banned from the...
The European System of Central Banks
Worksheets - 4 pages - Economy general
The European System of Central Banks (ESCB) is composed of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the National Central Banks (NCB's) of all 15 EU Member States. The "Eurosystem" is the term used to refer to the ECB and the NCBs of the Member States who have euro as their national currency. The...
Based on the evolution of traditional and hi-tech industries in the last twenty years in the US, to what extent would you say that American capitalism has reshaped and reinvented itself in the 1980s-1990s?
Worksheets - 3 pages - Economy general
After the end of the Second World War, US emerged as the first economic super power. Despite of the tragic events that the US encountered, it still remains as one of the leading economies in twenty first century. During the time between the 1980s-1990s, the country redefined its capitalism to...
Can growth take place and inflation remain unaffected ?
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
For a long time, nobody thought that inflation would be a serious matter of concern. Apart from a few cases of hyperinflation in the 1920s, there was no big concern with regard to inflation. The period of economic boom after the Second World War witnessed high rates of inflation which had...
Globalization: Good or Bad?
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
Globalization and deglobalization refers to the increase or decline of globalism. Globalism has two special characteristics (Keohane, R. and Nye, J. 2000): Globalization refers to the minimizing distance on a large scale. It can be contrasted with localization, nationalization, or...
Sports, money and politics
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
?Sport' has become a significant central activity in the modern day life. Everyone is either directly or indirectly influenced by sports! Results of competitions and impressive performances of sportsmen (for example Z. Zidane's goal in a football match or M. Jordan's feat in...
The future of financial centres in the European Union
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
The working of European Union was expected to be similar to the United States of America. Theorists believed that Europe will have a financial hub similiar to the Wall Street in the United Sates and questioned the future of the European Union. Establishing inter-market deals among the European...
The impact of e-commerce
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
What exactly is e-commerce ? It's an example of one of the many buzzwords that are used concerning the internet that no one really knows the definition. E-commerce refers to selling, advertising and marketing products, all done over the internet. In other words, the e-commerce allows to...
The new Labour government stance on the Economic and Monetary Union (1997)
Essay - 23 pages - Economy general
In this dissertation we will focus on how the government mustered the largest possible support on a very risky issue. This was done by examining the political, economic and European background of Britain, which had a definitive influence on the government's decision. In the second half of...
Garten (Jeffrey E.), the Big Ten
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
Jeffrey E. Garten is a Washington executive who entered the Clinton administration in the summer of 1993 as the ?Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade'. During his tenure, he decided to launch the Big Emerging Markets' project ('BEMs' project). This project flagged...
