An economic history of twentieth-century Europe

economic regimes from Laissez-Faire to globalization

This new edition of Ivan Berend's leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance from the start of the twentieth century to the present is fully updated to incorporate recent events, including the causes and impacts of the 2008 financial-economic crisis. Praised for its ...

Case studies on modern european economy

entrepreneurs, inventions, institutions

The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled and educated ...

Europa desde 1980

Estudio histórico, político y económico sobre Europa (tanto Oriental como Occidental) a partir de la década de 1980, periodo en que el bloque socialista comienza a debilitarse y las dinámicas en la relación intraeuropea se deben reestructurar y adaptar al acontecer regional e internacional de ...

An economic history of Nineteenth-Century Europe

diversity and industrialization

Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic ...

Europe in crisis

bolt from the blue?

This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it. It contains explicit debates with several economists and analysts on some of the ...

Europe

since 1980

This book tells the dramatic story of the economic, social, political, and cultural transformation of Europe during the transition from the Cold War to the European Union. Ivan Berend charts, in particular, the overwhelming impact of the collapse of communism on every aspect of European ...

From the Soviet bloc to European Union

the economic and social transformation of central and eastern Europe since 1973

The Soviet Union#s dramatic collapse in 1991 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet bloc countries joining the European ...

History derailed

central and eastern Europe in the nineteenth century