Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period
following the financial crisis in Europe. It investigates how the burdens of the recession were …

The aim of this chapter is to analyse the relationship between the financial crisis and the real
economic crisis in Spain. The main hypothesis put forward by this chapter is that …

The paper analyses the mistakes made in the management of the fiscal policy in Spain
before the crisis. The authors argue that the low size of the public expenditures, the adoption …

This contribution will show how institutions in Spain and Germany facilitated intra‐European
labour mobility as a solution to a mismatch in the labour market. To this end, we have …

This text develops an original critical analysis of the origins and evolution of the euro and the
current debt crisis that envelops the euro-zone. It provides a comprehensive critical historical …

One of the European Union's (EU) strategic goals is to close the economic gap on the United
States of America and thus “make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge …

Despite the relevance given by the Post-Keynesian thought to wage and incomes policies,
little attention has been paid to the institutional elements that would favour the unions' …

The euro project is now at the threshold of disintegration as the fault-lines between the
core/surplus countries and the peripheral/deficit countries experience a profound rupture. In …

Opposite to mainstream economics,(post-) Keynesian economics has defended the need of
a discretionary fiscal policy that helps to maintain economic activity at a full employment …

Over the past three decades a wave of reforms that came to be known later as New Public
Management (NPM) engulfed the world. Although differing in terms of substance and …