Marvell, Europe, and Social Negotiations – Introduction

Economic change, social welfare and health in Europe. Introduction.

Social Mobility in Europe

Representations of Social Europe

Two main political and economic paradigms have framed the Social Europe so far. The first one has consisted in the (German) “ordoliberalism”, which has played a key role in structuring the foundations of the European Community as well as those of the Monetary Union. The other and more recent one is the so called “Social Investment Strategy” ” recently endorsed by the European Commission. Both n...

Commerce in Pre-industrial Europe: an Introduction*

Economic growth in pre-industrial Europe was driven by the expansion of the market. The ‘market’ was a complex commercial structure made up of merchant firms, merchant associations, and organized markets. This paper provides an overview of the pre-industrial commercial structure, of how it functioned, and of how it evolved. JEL Categories: N13, D23, L14, L81, O12 *This paper is a draft chapter ...

Fishing Capacity in Europe: Special Issue Introduction

Over the last two decades, management of fishing capacity has been a central focus of the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) of the European Union (EU). At the global level, the capacity issue was given high priority on the political agenda by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the late 1990s. A series of studies and meetings aimed at defining and measuring capacity e...