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Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union

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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


Nursing in the European Community

Nursing in the European Community

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Sheila Quinn CBE
December 29, 2025

Nursing in the European Community (1980) explains the content and implications of the EEC Nursing Directives in relation to the situation in each of the nine member states, and the context of directives for the other major health professions. The book also discusses freedom of movement of work ...

Planning in Europe

Planning in Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Jack Hayward, Olga A. Narkiewicz
December 29, 2025

Planning in Europe (1978) examines planning in West and East Europe. It gives priority to economic and financial planning, followed by industrial and administrative planning, and social and spatial aspects of planning. The main idea binding all the papers together is the attempt to inter-relate the...

Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe

Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joan Pearce, John Sutton, Roy Batchelor
December 29, 2025

Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe (1986) examines the stance advocated by some for a strongly protectionist external-trade policy by the European Community. It looks at why this approach is advocated and analyses the case that can be made in its favour....

Public Enterprise in Western Europe

Public Enterprise in Western Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Henry Parris, Pierre Pestieau, Peter Saynor
December 29, 2025

Public Enterprise in Western Europe (1987) presents a comprehensive survey of public enterprise in Europe. It looks at the status of public enterprises, relations with governments, industrial relations, commercial policies and consumer relations, assessing the impact of privatisation and emerging ...

Regional Development in the European Economic Community

Regional Development in the European Economic Community

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Political and Economic Planning
December 29, 2025

Regional Development in the European Economic Community (1962) examines the considerable disparities in economic development between the various regions in the original six countries of the EEC. It considers the principles basic to regional policies in general, how far in fact they are influenced ...

Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union

Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Various Authors
December 29, 2025

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 ...

The Barons of European Industry

The Barons of European Industry

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Anthony Rowley
December 29, 2025

The Barons of European Industry (1974) examines the ownership and control of industry in the leading countries of Western Europe. In individual chapters on France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Benelux, the Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark, the authors describe the structure and operation of the large ...

The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Community

The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Community

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Mark Wise
December 29, 2025

Disputes over fishing rights stir national feelings despite the modest socio-economic importance of fishing in most member states. The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Community (1984) takes an impartial view in examining the development of the European Community’s Common Fisheries Policy ...

The Operation of the European Social Fund

The Operation of the European Social Fund

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Doreen Collins
December 29, 2025

The Operation of the European Social Fund (1983) examines the process of European integration at work by taking a detailed analysis of one particular area, namely the European Social Fund. It looks at the ESF in itself, its origins, objectives and finance, and the application of the Fund in Britain...

The Politicisation of Business in Western Europe

The Politicisation of Business in Western Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By M.C.P.M. Van Schendelen, R.J. Jackson
December 29, 2025

The Politicisation of Business in Western Europe (1987) surveys the relationship between politics and business in West European countries. It describes the political environment in which businessmen find themselves, charts and explains the changes and dynamics of governments’ interference with ...

The Politics of Coal's Decline The Industry in Western Europe

The Politics of Coal's Decline: The Industry in Western Europe

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Mike Parker
December 29, 2025

The Politics of Coal's Decline (1994) examines the decline of the European coal industry and assesses its future prospects. It shows how the manner and rate of this decline is determined as much by political as by economic factors, including the politics of environmental controls and market ...

The Power of the Purse in the European Communities

The Power of the Purse in the European Communities

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By David Coombes
December 29, 2025

After 1978 the European Communities had a budget financed wholly from sources of income belonging to the Communities themselves. The Power of the Purse in the European Communities (1972) examines the constitutional principles this raises, as well focusing on the nationalist versus federalist ...

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