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Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union

About the Book Series

Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union is a 28-volume set that collects together some key out-of-print titles that examine the history, development and focus of economics in Europe as European integration began and grew into the EU of today. Books look at the idea of a single common market and customs unions, regional disparities and economic planners’ hopes for levelling up, planning, industrial policies, politics, lobbying, democracy and accountability, the roles and impacts of industry and business, security economics, public finance and much more besides.

28 Series Titles


A Competitive Future for Europe? Towards a New European Industrial Policy

A Competitive Future for Europe?: Towards a New European Industrial Policy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By P.R. Beije, J. Groenewegen, I. Kostoulas, J. Paelinck, C W A M Van Paridon
December 29, 2025

A Competitive Future for Europe (1987) surveys industrial policy in Europe, looking at policy in each EEC country and at collaborative initiatives. It assesses European industrial policy and the need for a coherent collective outlook if the EEC is to successfully compete with the United States and ...

Continuity and Change in European Society Germany, France and Italy since 1870

Continuity and Change in European Society: Germany, France and Italy since 1870

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Martin Kolinsky
December 29, 2025

Continuity and Change in European Society (1974) surveys the political and social development of France, Germany and Italy against the background of a wider Europe, showing the complex relationship between political change and social continuity. It deals with the impact of industrialisation on the ...

Customs Unions and Trade Conflicts The Enlargement of the European Community

Customs Unions and Trade Conflicts: The Enlargement of the European Community

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By G.N. Yannopoulos
December 29, 2025

Customs Unions and Trade Conflicts (1988) examines the impact of the expansion of the European community and its integral customs union on world trade. It looks at the effects of the European trade union on its internal economies, and on the external trade agreements and complicated trade conflicts...

Economic Divergence in the European Community

Economic Divergence in the European Community

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Michael Hodges, William Wallace
December 29, 2025

Economic Divergence in the European Community (1981) looks at the widening differences between the economies of the member states of the European Community. The economic designers of the common market had confidently assumed that the removal of trade barriers would bring about a natural convergence...

Economic Integration and Growth in Europe

Economic Integration and Growth in Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By A.J. Marques Mendes
December 29, 2025

Economic Integration and Growth in Europe (1987) is an in-depth study of the economic effects of integration and an analysis of economic growth in the EEC. It develops an alternative framework to the conventional Customs Union approach to the theory of economic integration and uses this new ...

Environmental Profiles of European Business

Environmental Profiles of European Business

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Dion Vaughan, Craig Mickle
December 29, 2025

Environmental Profiles of European Business (1993) surveys the reactions of European businesses to environmental concerns. Basing their findings on detailed and confidential interviews with boardroom executives from the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, the authors examine ...

Ethics & European Security

Ethics & European Security

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Barrie Paskins
December 29, 2025

The alliance between the United States and its Nato partners has been strained severely in recent years. Ethics & European Security (1986) develops a broad understanding of the problem of European security and American backing based on Christian ethics. There are disagreements and differences ...

Europe's Domestic Market

Europe's Domestic Market

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jacques Pelkmans, Alan Winters
December 29, 2025

Europe's Domestic Market (1988) provides a critical analysis of the European Community’s aim to achieve a unified European domestic market by 1992. It discusses the kind of common market which might be achieved and the economic benefits which might follow. It also explores how far other economic ...

European Industrial Policy

European Industrial Policy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Graham Hall
December 29, 2025

European Industrial Policy (1986) discusses the effects of industrial policy within a European context. It covers aspects of European industrial policy pursued by the EEC, as well as focusing on specific industries such as cable television, consumer electronics and defence industries. It looks at ...

European Technological Collaboration

European Technological Collaboration

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Margaret Sharp, Claire Shearman
December 29, 2025

European Technological Collaboration (1987) traces the response to international technological competition by European industries and governments, in promoting greater collaboration both in research and development and in new manufacturing and marketing initiatives. It examines the relative ...

Free Trade and Competition in the EEC Law, Policy and Practice

Free Trade and Competition in the EEC: Law, Policy and Practice

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Helen Papaconstantinou
December 29, 2025

To what extent are Member states of the EEC bound to operate under principles of free trade and undistorted competition? How much of a free market really is the EEC in so far as the States themselves are concerned? Free Trade and Competition in the EEC (1988) examines these issues and attempts to ...

Mental Health Care in the European Community

Mental Health Care in the European Community

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Steen P. Mangen
December 29, 2025

Mental Health Care in the European Community (1985) is a study of the developments and constraints in the mental health policies of the full-member states of the European Community. Discussion is largely devoted to issues in the Sixties, Seventies and early Eighties, although the contributors have ...

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