The North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union / Edition 1

by Nicholas V. Gianaris

Overview

In this timely volume, the ongoing, dramatic economic and geopolitical changes in NAFTA and the European Union are examined. Gianaris pays particular attention to the potential for stronger economic cooperation between North America and Western Europe. This unique book deals with similarities in economic organizations and related fiscal and monetary policies as they affect trade and financial transactions between these regions, and provides a detailed examination of trade and investment relations, capital flows, and currency realignments as well as transatlantic joint ventures. In addition, it deals with problems of privatization, employee participation, closer integration, and the challenge of enlarging NAFTA to include other Latin American countries and the European Union to include Eastern Europe.

Gianaris weaves together a historical framework with comparative studies of the nation-states of NAFTA and the European Union. He discusses structural changes and the main problems and developments in the relationships between NAFTA and the European Union as well as problems of mutual trade, investments, and joint ventures. A useful book for students, scholars, and investors with a broad range of interests in the American and European continents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275961671
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

NICHOLAS V. GIANARIS is Professor of Economics at Fordham University. He is the author of 10 books with Praeger, including Geopolitical and Economic Changes in the Balkan Countries (1996), Modern Capitalism: Privatization, Employee Ownership, and Industrial Democracy (1996), The European Community, Eastern Europe and Russia: Economic and Political Change (1994), Contemporary Economic Systems: A Regional and Country Approach (1993), and The European Community and the United States: Economic Relations (1991).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
NAFTA
The European Union
Economic Organization: Similarities and Differences
Fiscal Policies
Trade Relations
Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates
Investment and Joint Ventures in NAFTA
Cross Atlantic and Intra-EU Mergers
Relations with Other Countries
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Examines trade and investment relations and related economic policies that affect developmental trends in NAFTA and the EU as a result of the economic integration of these large markets in North America and Europe. Explores dilemmas bedeviling the NAFTA and EU nations as they try to foster new institutional arrangements to promote cooperation, stability, and growth. Early chapters review historical trends and past relations, and later chapters deal with economic organization, trade and monetary policies, and joint ventures in NAFTA and the EU and acquisitions across the Atlantic. A final chapter outlines relations with other countries. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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