دانلود کتاب Economic History of a Divided Europe: Four Diverse Regions in an Integrating Continent

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Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Illustrations
Introduction: Europe, its civilizations and historical regions
Europe and its civilization
The idea and reality of European integration
In spite of integration, major macro-regional differences
Is the Central and Eastern European backwardness the legacy of communism?
The “longue durée” approach
Evaluating and measuring peripheral backwardness
The terms of backwardness, its measurement and generalization
Regional differences and the future of Europe
Notes
1 Long historical roads toward regional differences within Europe: Four regions in 1913
Explanatory theories and the reality
The road toward a high level of advancement: Northwest Europe
The revolutionary transformation of the Western mind from the Renaissance via Reformation to Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Northwest Europe at the top
Dead-end roads and relative backwardness in the peripheries
Stimulating influence by the connection with the advanced core
Three distinct peripheral macro-regions before World War I
Notes
2 A radically changed world, yet unchanged regional division: Four regions in early-21st-century Europe
The 21st century: a dramatically changed world and Europe
The regionalization of the enlarged European Union
The other side of core-periphery relations: the road to catch up
Four regions in the early 21st century
The changing position of some countries in an unchanged regional divide
Europe’s divided regions’ position in the world
Notes
3 What preserves regional differences?: The social, economic, and cultural factors
The dialectic of change and continuity
Survival of micro-regional peripheral backwardness in advanced countries
Social-economic structural weaknesses of peripheral countries
Preserved peripheral social-cultural characteristics
Anti-capitalist mentalities, sharply divided societies, and lower levels of education
Weaknesses in entrepreneurship
Peripheral attitude toward the state and institutions
The black (or shadow) economy
Labor market and work ethic weaknesses
Epidemic corruption and tax evasion
Tendencies toward authoritarian-dictatorial power
Notes
4 The most developed core of Europe: The northwest
Europe’s superpower status and the northwest region
Reunified Germany in the driver’s seat
What factors have helped the reproduction of Northwest’s preeminence in the 21st century?
The economic strength of Northwest Europe
Technological revolution, the renewed energy system, and deindustrialization
The service revolution and the financial sector
The strength of modern industries
The Northwest: the biggest service provider
The 2008 financial crisis in Northwest Europe
Moderate neoliberal turn: weakening the welfare state and workers’ rights
Questionable stability of the Northwest
Notes
5 The Mediterranean-Irish region: Catching up with the West but burdened with remnants of a peripheral past
Middle-income peripheral level until the mid-20th century
The rise of Ireland and the Mediterranean
The Irish miracle
Catching up on the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean-Irish 21st-century credit-fueled consumption bubble
Financial-economic crisis hits the region hard
Notes
6 Central Europe and the Baltics: Trapped in middle-income periphery?
Belated and partial modernization: the historical background
The interwar fiasco
“Detour from the periphery to the periphery”
Crisis and collapse
Transformation to democratic market capitalism in new state formations
Recovery and development based on capital inflow: under the tutelage of the European Union
Crisis: major weaknesses surface after 2008
Conclusion
Notes
7 The Russia-Turkey-Balkans low-income region: Outside Europe?
The early 20th century: the most backward periphery of Europe
A new opening to the European world, new states, and regimes after World War I
Successes and failures in the interwar decades
Economic performance of the region during the interwar decades
New political environment and troubled history after World War II
Rapid growth and industrialization
Ambivalent modernization in Turkey
Reproduced backwardness in Russia and the Balkans
The Russia-Turkey-Balkan region and the European Union
Transformation: rising or declining relative income level? The 21st century
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Index