Recasting Bourgeois Europe or Economic Geography and Public Policy

Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade after World War I

Author: Charles S Maier

The author of fourteen books, Charles Maier is one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history.

Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his first book, presented an unparalleled analysis of the crucial decade in Europe after 1918. Based on extensive archival research in each of the three countries, the book examined how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization.

Recasting Bourgeois Europe accomplished two major historiographical goals simultaneously. First, Maier provided a comparative history of three different European societies for a period when common developments demanded an approach other than that of the usual national histories. Second, he rethought the political structure of the European interwar period. Although most accounts presented the 1920s as a time characterized by illusory attempts to return to a prewar political equilibrium, and doomed to succumb to the Depression and the dictatorships, Maier suggested instead that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II.

The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse but uni.ed histories in detail, and its effort to make stabilization, and not just breakdown, a historical problem have made it a classic of European historiography.

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Economic Geography and Public Policy

Author: Richard E Baldwin

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the "new economic geography"--have devoted little attention to the policy implications of the new theory.

Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy analysis. Focusing primarily on trade policy, tax policy, and regional policy, Richard Baldwin and coauthors show how these models can be used to make sense of real-world situations. The book not only provides much fresh analysis but also synthesizes insights from the existing literature.

The authors begin by presenting and analyzing the widest range of new economic geography models to date. From there they proceed to examine previously unaddressed welfare and policy issues including, in separate sections, trade policy (unilateral, reciprocal, and preferential), tax policy (agglomeration with taxes and public goods, tax competition and agglomeration), and regional policy (infrastructure policies and the political economy of regional subsidies). A well-organized, engaging narrative that progresses smoothly from fundamentals to more complex material, Economic Geography and Public Policy is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers seeking new approaches to spatial policy issues.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	The Core-Periphery Model	9
Ch. 3	The Footloose Capital Model	68
Ch. 4	The Footloose Entrepreneur Model	91
Ch. 5	Linear Models	110
Ch. 6	The Constructed Capital Model	137
Ch. 7	Global and Local Spillovers Models	155
Ch. 8	Vertical Linkages Models	190
Ch. 9	Policy and Economic Geography: What's New?	227
Ch. 10	A Typology of Welfare Effects: Regional Perspective	243
Ch. 11	Efficiency, Equity and Optimal Agglomeration	252
Ch. 12	Unilateral Trade Policy	277
Ch. 13	Reciprocal Trade Agreements	317
Ch. 14	Preferential Trade Agreements	330
Ch. 15	Agglomeration with Taxation and Public Goods	365
Ch. 16	Tax Competition and Agglomeration	391
Ch. 17	Infrastructure Policies and Economic Geography	425
Ch. 18	Political Economics of Regional Subsidies	448
Ch. 19	Concluding Remarks and Directions for Future Research	472
	Index	481