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Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality

Robert Strauss editor Georg Fischer editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:21st Apr '21

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European integration is focused on improving economic performance and increasing income levels in nations across the European Union. Political leaders and the media often use income trends to measure this progress, with inequality moving more and more to the forefront of these conversations. In this book, contributing authors focus on the economies within the EU, its member countries, and other European countries closely associated with the EU. The book includes an overview of economic and social trends, using long-term processes of European integration as a way to frame the discussions. Georg Fischer, Robert Strauss, and their contributors focus on explaining how policy makers and the media focus on national trends to measure progress among the nations in Europe. They make a specific point to look at the EU as an economic and political entity whose parts are closely interlinked rather than as a conglomerate of individual countries. The contributors consider the commonalities and differences between various institutions and policies, explaining how a decision in one country might impact another. Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality offers a novel approach to the analysis of social and economic trends, and the resulting book identifies major policy challenges applicable in the EU and beyond.

Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption and Inequality offers a wide range of perspectives regarding the development of inequality, specifically assessing inequality within the EU and neighboring countries. Too often, research focuses on the perceived impact of recent austerity policies on the income distribution, frequently without strong evidence. This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the development of inequality in Europe, which makes it such a valuable contribution for social scientists and policy makers. * Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Professor of Comparative Public Policy, Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen *

ISBN: 9780197545706

Dimensions: 157mm x 236mm x 15mm

Weight: 408g

616 pages