The EU and the US confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments and long-term changes in capital markets and capital flows represent key problems in aging societies. This book charts the role of different innovation systems and knowledge...

The EU and the U.S. confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments and long-term changes in capital markets and capital flows represent key problems in aging societies. The analyses presented here compare the European and U.S. patterns in this...

What lies behind the Trump victory of 2016 and the US' new raft of economic policies? Is a populist presidency in the United States likely to be a temporary phenomenon or a structural long-term challenge? In an era of declining multilateralism, what can the US still stand to learn from Europe,...

Part I: The Background to Trumpism and Economic Explanations -- Chapter 1: introduction -- Chapter 2: Inequality, US Survey Results and Economic Analysis: The Case for Structural Trumpism -- Chapter 3: Protectionist US Policy and Expansionary Fiscal Policy: Ongoing Contradictions -- Part II:...

These continue to be difficult times for the labor markets of the industrialized nations. Shifts in labor demand, deregulatory impulses, and the ongoing process of globalization have each impacted the labor markets of the United States and Europe. In the face of the globalization of economic...