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Beginning with the basic background and perspectives needed for non-European audiences, the authors focus on the most striking aspects of European integration such as trade, agriculture, and monetary unification. Part I of the book ends with a capstone chapter that describes current weaknesses in a wide range of EU policy affairs. Part II covers insights on national and regional responses to the European Union policy recommendations, because the bulk of relevant expenditures are made by individual countries and not the EU itself. Students can appreciate difficulties, as well as the singificant areas of agreement among EU countries. The book concludes with a discussion of the future of the European Union in an evolving world economy.
Readership: Courses on Economics of European Union at graduate and undergraduate level.
Larry Neal, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Daniel Barbezat, Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College
""Fortunately, the authors of this book ... have chosen to describe carefully the various steps of integration since 1945. Political scientists, historians, economists, indeed anyone with an interest in European affairs, would benefit from reading this book." Journal of European Integration, Vol. 22, p. 348. Xavier de Vanssay, York University, Toronto"
