Britain, Europe and the Emu
, by Eltis, W.
- ISBN: 9780333773376 | 0333773373
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/7/2000
Walter Eltis is Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Reading.
| List of Figures | p. vi |
| List of Tables | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
| Britain | |
| Public Expenditure and the British Economy (with Robert Bacon) | p. 3 |
| The Key to Higher British Living Standards | p. 29 |
| Closing the British Competitiveness Gap (with David Higham) | p. 52 |
| The Political Economy of British Foreign Direct Investment | p. 73 |
| Europe | |
| Europe's Unemployment Crisis | p. 101 |
| The IT Revolution and European Employment | p. 131 |
| The Lessons for Britain and for Europe from the Success of German Counter-inflation Policy | p. 155 |
| EMU | |
| The Creation and Destruction of EMU | p. 171 |
| Further Considerations on EMU: It will Create Instability and Destroy Employment | p. 184 |
| Historical Lessons | |
| John Locke and the Establishment of a Sound Currency | p. 209 |
| Debt, Deficits and Default | p. 234 |
| France's Free Market Reforms in 1774-6 and Russia's in the 1990s: The Immediate Relevance of the Abbe de Condillac's Analysis | p. 253 |
| References | p. 271 |
| Index | p. 280 |
| List of Figures | |
| Ratio of UK general government expenditure to GDP, 1963/4 to 1995/6 | |
| The rate of taxation and total tax revenue | |
| Comparison of manufacturing productivity between the UK and other leading economies, 1979-94 | |
| Growth of GDP per head in the world's leading economies, 1968-95 | |
| Labour stoppages in the United Kingdom, 1975-95 | |
| Destination of male UK graduates with first class honours degrees, 1950-92 | |
| GDP per head in 1997 | |
| Graduation rates in 1992 | |
| Participation in higher education, 1978-94 | |
| Proportion of 16- and 17-year-olds in full-time education or training, 1984-94 | |
| Proportion of employees of working age receiving job-related training, 1984-94 | |
| Business investment as a proportion of GDP, 1960-93 | |
| Investment in machinery and equipment as a proportion of GDP, 1960-93 | |
| Manufacturing investment as a proportion of manufacturing output, 1968-93 | |
| Business and enterprise expenditure on RandD in 1993 | |
| Profitability in industrial and commercial companies and in manufacturing, 1970-93 | |
| Productivity in UK and German manufacturing industry, 1980 and 1992 | |
| International comparison of inward and outward foreign direct investment, 1980-90 | |
| Share of foreign affiliates' RandD and turnover in total manufacturing RandD and turnover in 1989 | |
| Growth of Japanese-owned manufacturing in the United Kingdom, 1972-92 | |
| Growth of German-owned manufacturing in the United Kingdom, 1970-90 | |
| Inward direct investment in the United Kingdom attributable to overseas companies, 1981-9 | |
| The displacement of British by foreign-owned firms in the manufacture of television sets, 1967-91 | |
| UK trade in colour televisions, 1970-91 | |
| Trend in employment by foreign affiliates in manufacturing industry, 1980-90 | |
| Level of wages per employee of foreign affiliates in manufacturing industry, 1980-90 | |
| Hourly labour costs for production workers in manufacturing industry in 1993 | |
| Total taxes on business as a proportion of GDP in 1992 | |
| Telecommunications costs in the European Union in 1994 | |
| Unemployment rates in Europe, the United States and Japan, 1980-98 | |
| Employment participation rates in Europe, the United States and Japan, 1980-98 | |
| Public and private sector employment creation, 1974-92 | |
| A higher cost of labour reduces private sector employment | |
| Ratio of government outlays to GDP in the UK, Germany and Sweden, 1965-93 | |
| Ratio of Public to private employment in the UK and Sweden, 1965-93 | |
| Composition of US business investment, 1980-98 | |
| US business purchases of software, 1983-98 | |
| Measures of the US high-tech economy, 1988-98 | |
| The falling price of US technology, 1980-98 | |
| Taxation and unemployment rates in OECD economies in 1995 | |
| European implicit tax rates, 1980-96 | |
| The charts they tried to suppress, 1994 | |
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