Overview
- Takes a close look at Europe’s struggle for unification
- Discusses the advantages and pitfalls of Europe as a democratically governed continent
- Presents possible solutions to Europe’s most urgent current problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Keywords
- Economic Growth in Latvia
- Economic Integration between Cyprus and the EU
- Effects of Poland's Entrance into the EU
- European Economic Policy
- European Integration in South-Eastern Europe
- Future Development of the European Union
- Governance in a Future State
- Hungarian Labor Relations
- IT Industry in the USA
- Integral Solution for European Economic Policy
- NATO Enlargement in Russia and the Baltic States
- Non-Defense Capital Goods in the USA
- Polish Economy and Policy
- Polish Globalization and Internationalization
- Shangri-La Governance
- Social Efficiency of Computerization in Europe
- Socioeconomic Development in Bulgaria
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Savvas Katsikides, (1953), has studied Social/Economic Sciences and Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. He served as Lecturer and Assistant at the University of Technology in Vienna (TU), Austria (1988-1995). He has also held visiting professorships at Leeds Metropolitan University (PRU, UK, 1994-1995), Central Connecticut State University (Dept. of Sociology, USA, 1995), the University of Piraeus (ERASMUS, Greece), and Vienna University of Technology (2002). He lectured at the University of Technology, Limassol. In 2011 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. From 1995 to 1998 has served as Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus, 1998-2007 Associate Professor of Sociology and since 2007 Professor of Sociology. Deputy Dean. Elected President of the Cyprus Sociological Association. (2009-2010).
Hardy Hanappi was born in Vienna (1951) and studied economics and Informatics at the University of Vienna and at the Technical University of Vienna. Before returning to university he has worked as econometrician for OPEC and as CEO for the consulting firm ECON GmbH. He then became university teacher and researcher at the TU-Vienna and concentrated on macroeconomics, political economy, simulation methods and game theory. From 1992 till 1997 he was deputy director of socioeconomics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. After his return to the TU Vienna he became head of economics, from 2001 till 2005 he also was director of the Institute for Monetary Economics (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute). He currently is ad personam chair for political economy of European integration, a position granted by the European Commission. He is professorial research associate at SOAS (University of London) where he spent a sabbatical in 2011. Hardy Hanappi now works and lives in Vienna.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Society and Economics in Europe
Book Subtitle: Disparity versus Convergence?
Editors: Savvas Katsikides, Hardy Hanappi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21431-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21430-6Published: 30 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79342-9Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21431-3Published: 23 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 221
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, European Integration, Sociology, general, Economic Policy