MACMILLAN European Economies in Transition: In Search of a New Growth Path

European Economies in Transition focuses on the structural changes in private enterprises and public institutions that aim to lift the continental productive system onto a higher growth path. Organized along three research lines, the contributors offer new, provocative treatments of the adjustments in monetary and real sectors accompanying the European economic integration, the consequences of specific legal and institutional changes, and national systems of technological and institutional innovation. Given the fundamental changes of policy regimes involved, only a comparative (and, to some extent, eclectic) conceptual framework may provide insights into the target economic state and the manifold processes leading towards it. The unifying feature of the book lies in its attempt to highlight the complementary roles of private and public sectors in promoting technology, human capital and institutional engineering as the ingredients in any successful recipe for growth and convergence. About the Author OLIVER FABEL is Professor of Management at the University of Konstanz. He is the author of several articles and his books include The Economics of Pensions and Variable Retirement Schemes (1994). FRANCESCO FARINA is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He is the author of several articles on monetary economics, social science and economic integration and is co-editor of Ethics, Rationality and Economic Behaviour (1996). LIONELLO F. PUNZO is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena and group coordinator of the IDEE project. He is the author of many articles and is co-author of The Dynamics of a Capitalist Economy (with R.M. Goodwin), and Cycle, Growth and Structural Change (with R.H. Day).