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Competitiveness of New Europe: Papers from the Second Lancut Economic Forum

By Jan Winiecki

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
041545462X
Open Library ID
OL10207369M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2077515 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in the European Economy
Edition
1
Pages
203\203
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

New Europe is a rhetorical term used by some analysts to describe European post-communist transition success stories. The term implies their recent return to European, or more precisely Western civilization, but suggests - given their (forced) communist detour - that there is no single Pan-European identity in the EU. This book examines the nations that make up the so-called New-Europe (those that joined the European Union in 2004) to look at the economic competitiveness in comparison with each other and the rest of Europe. The editor - a leading scholar on transition economics - draws together contributions from a wide range of contributors to look at this important issue. These essays stress the interaction between successful transition measures creating an encouraging, more transparent, liberal (i.e. free market) environment on the one hand and the inflow of foreign investors encouraged by that environment on the other.

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