Economics of the European Union

Mike Artis is a professorial fellow of Economics, a co-Director of IPEG and Director of its Regional Economics Centre. He has recently held a Professorship at the European University Institute, Florence (1995-2003) and a George Fellowship at the Bank of England (January-July, 2005). Frederick Nixson is Professor of Development Economics in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Before coming to Manchester, he spent five years in East Africa. Since then he has worked extensively in a number of countries including Vietnam, Mongolia, India, China and more recently the Yemen. His main research interests are in the fields of industrialisation and trade policy, macroeconomic policy and pro-poor growth, privatisation and poverty alleviation and the history of development economics. He has worked as a consultant for a number of organisations, including the Asian Development Bank, UNDP and the EU. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited 15 books.

• 1. History and Institutions of the European Union ; 2. The European Economy ; 3. The Economics of European Integration. ; 4. The Common Agricultural Policy ; 5. Competition Policy ; 6. Science and technology policy ; 7. Regional Policy ; 8. Social Policy. ; 9. The Primacy of the Transatlantic Economy: the EU and the US. ; 10. The Creation of EMU ; 11. Monetary Policy in the Eurozone ; 12. Fiscal Policy in the Eurozone ; 13. Aid, Trade and Economic Development: the EU and the Developing World. ; 14. Europe's Unemployment Problem ; 15. The 2004 Enlargement ; 16. The Lisbon Process and the Sapir Report

Review from previous edition The main strength of the material is the way in which it combines reasonably theoretical approaches with presentationa and discussions of EU policy.