Public Interest and Market Pressures: Problems Posed by Europe 1992

by David G. Mayes, Arthur Knight

This text tackles the criticism that the European Community is an unbalanced arrangement, where the path to closer integration may involve an inequitable distribution of the benefits to large firms, rather than to the public at large, the less well off parts of the Community and those in employment. The major focus of the book is on the completion of the internal market - the 1992 programme - and the "social dimension". However, it goes further and looks at the likely success of the Community's structure in the world of global competition. It is the product of reflection on the results of two working conferences by the Andrew Schonfield Association, and provides a contrast of views both from different social science disciplines and from business, policy and academia in the spirit of Andrew Schonfield's work.

199 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993