This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global
economic crisis of the 1930s. It explores the connections between the gold standard--the …

This compelling volume re-examines the topic of economic growth in Europe after the
Second World War. The contributors approach the subject armed not only with new …

Most industrial relations researchers still consider Belgium as a 'Ghent country'. Using
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) or other Boolean algebra techniques, however …

It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in
terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits …

The growth of the Belgian economy since 1945 is surveyed with emphasis on the distinction
between open and sheltered sectors. Relatively slow growth to around 1960 is explained by …

Standard trade theory, as invoked by political scientists and economists, would anticipate
that workers in Belgium, a small Old World country, rich in labour relative to land, were in a …

In 1900, a special type of unemployment insurance was set up in Belgium: the so-called
“Ghent system”, which had some influence on the development of unemployment insurance …

The development of social policy and growth of related social spending has been universal
among advanced industrial democracies in the 20th century. Contributory social insurance …

In this paper, we analyze the International Great Depression (IGD) in the US and Western
Europe by applying the business cycle accounting method to a dynamic stochastic general …

The chapter discusses how the Great Depression affected the Belgian socialists' view of the
state. Having previously failed to envisage a role for the state in the transition from capitalism …