Society and Economics in Europe

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Shangri-La Governance. A Sketch of an Integral Solution for European Economic Policy Based on a Synthesis of Europe's Problems; Hardy Hanappi.- Chapter 2. Convergence and Variability of Money and Capital Markets in Selected Eastern European Union countries; Kristis Hasapis.- Chapter 3. Polish Economic Policy, Internationalization, and Globalization; Marian Gorynia.- Chapter 4. A Geopolitical and Institutional Model of Poland's Participation in the New Baltic Europe; Janusz Ruszkowski.- Chapter 5. Main Economic Effects of Poland's Entrance into the European Union; Jaroslaw Kundera.- Chapter 6. Socioeconomic Development in Bulgaria; Mladen Maslarski.-Chapter 7. EU Strategy on the Governance of the Euro Area; Nicholas C. Baltas.- Chapter 8. Questioning the Social Efficiency of Computerazition in an Enlarged Europe: The Lithuanian Case; Kristina Levisauskait , Violeta Pukelien , Jon Sakalyt , Vytautas Magnus.- Chapter 9. Current Success, Future Headache: Economic Growth in Latvia; Martin Hansen.- Chapter 10. Bulgarian Social Partners and the Inform@tion Society: A cursory Acquaintance; Rumania Gladicheva.- Chapter 11. Regional Integration and the Transformations of Albanian Ethno-Nationalism; Pavlos Ioannis Koktsidis.- Chapter 12. The Dual Character of Hungarian Labor Relations: The Institution of Employee Participation from a European Perspective; Csaba Mako.- Chapter 13. Toward a New Cold War: NATO enlargement, Russia, and the Baltic States; Georgia Yiangou.- Chapter 14. The IT Industry and the Economic Crisis: Empirical Findings from the USA; Konstantinos Vergos, Apolostos G. Christopoulos, Quyan Pan and Petros Kalantonis.- Chapter 15. A Kaleckian Model of New Orders of Non-Defense Capital Goods in the USA 1992-2010; Evangelos Charos, Hossein Kazemi, Anthony J. Laramie and Douglas Mair.

Savvas Katsikides, (1953), has studied Social/Economic Sciences and Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. He served as Lecturer and Assistant at the University of Technology in Vienna (TU), Austria (1988-1995). He has also held visiting professorships at Leeds Metropolitan University (PRU, UK, 1994-1995), Central Connecticut State University (Dept. of Sociology, USA, 1995), the University of Piraeus (ERASMUS, Greece), and Vienna University of Technology (2002). He lectured at the University of Technology, Limassol. In 2011 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. From 1995 to 1998 has served as Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus, 1998-2007 Associate Professor of Sociology and since 2007 Professor of Sociology. Deputy Dean. Elected President of the Cyprus Sociological Association. (2009-2010).

Hardy Hanappi was born in Vienna (1951) and studied economics and Informatics at the University of Vienna and at the Technical University of Vienna. Before returning to university he has worked as econometrician for OPEC, and as CEO for the consulting firm ECON GmbH. He then became university teacher and researcher at the TU-Vienna and concentrated on macroeconomics, political economy, simulation methods, and game theory. From 1992 till 1997 he was deputy director of socioeconomics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. After his return to the TU Vienna he became head of economics, from 2001 till 2005 he also was director of the Institute for Monetary Economics (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute). He currently is ad personam chair for political economy of European integration, a position granted by the European Commission. He is professorial research associate at SOAS (University of London) where he spent a sabbatical in 2011. Hardy Hanappi now works and lives in Vienna.