Competitiveness, subsidiarity, and industrial policy / edited by Pat Devine, Yannis Katsoulacos, and Roger Sugden.

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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; ABSTRACTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 COMPETITIVENESS AND THE OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITIES; INTRODUCTION: COMPETITIVENESS AND OBJECTIVES; ROUTES TO COMPETITIVENESS; SUBSIDIARITY AND THE OBJECTIVES OF COMMUNITIES; IMPLICATIONS FOR EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY; REFERENCES; 2 SOCIAL OBJECTIVES, MARKET RULE AND PUBLIC POLICY; INTRODUCTION; COMPETITION, OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL OBJECTIVES; The case for decentralized decision-making; When does competition not work?; The objectives of public firms; Why privatization?

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND CONFLICTING OBJECTIVES: A THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONThe permissible range of cost inefficiency; Ownership, efficiency and social justice; Costs and quality; AN OVERVIEW OF THE EMPIRICAL WORK; SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3 SUBSIDIARITY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE; THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY AND THE TREATY OF THE UNION; THE EEC'S INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THE TREATY OF ROME; THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES OF THE COMMUNITY; THE SINGLE ACT AND NORMATIVE INTEGRATION.

MUTUAL RECOGNITION AND QUALIFIED MAJORITYTHE ORIGINS OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY; EFFICIENCY, EQUITY AND STABILITY; NOTES; REFERENCES; 4 COMPETITIVENESS, EU INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY AND SUBSIDIARITY; INTRODUCTION; EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN THE 1990s; INTERNAL ECONOMIES, EXTERNAL ECONOMIES, COMPETITION AND CO-OPERATION; Implications for Industrial Policy and Subsidiarity; SUBSIDIARITY, INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND SMEs; Subsidiarity and EU Industrial Policy; Co-operation among SMEs; Institutional co-operation and the role of the EU; Competition, co-operation and EU industrial policy; CONCLUSION.

Acknowledgementsnotes; references; 5 the price of diversity; introduction; the industrial complex: centres of gravity in the industrial restructuring race; five concepts of control; bargaining and power in industrial complexes; rival views on competitiveness, subsidiarity and objectives; the management of dependencies in industrial systems: shifting cohesion, shifting concepts of control; the european union as the battleground of four rival concepts of control; notes; references; 6 european enlargement, competitiveness and integration; introduction.

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND INTERNATIONAL TRADEForeign direct investment; Trade flows; COMPETITIVENESS, CONVERGENCE AND INTEGRATION; The role of Germany; Implications for the transition economies; Implications for western Europe; Convergence, divergence and enlargement; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; 7 CREATING A DYNAMICALLY COMPETITIVE ECONOMY; AIM AND STRUCTURE OF THE CHAPTER; THE COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONS; The timing of the issue; The concept at the firm level; The concept at the national level; A tentative definition and its application; 'Enough' exports.

What does competitiveness mean? In recent years, discussion of economic policy has become dominated by the notion of competitiveness. In this volume a group of leading economists explore the issue through cross-country comparisons and by means of single country case studies. They also examine: * the relationship between competitiveness and community objectives * the co-existence of diversity, subsidiarity and EU industrial policy * the impact of European enlargement and further integration.

English.

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