/library/oar/handle/123456789/28499 Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:30:10 GMT 2025-11-10T15:30:10Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/32169 Title: Is the current German de-industrialization similar to the British case of the 1870-1914 period? similarities and differences Authors: Salavrakos, Ioannis Dionysios Abstract: Globalization is a phenomenon, which has different influence on national economies. Thus, some national economies have benefited (i.e. winners), while others have experienced a harmful outcome (i.e. losers). However, globalization is not a new phenomenon. The first truly globalised economy existed in the era of the second industrial revolution (1870-1914) with the increase of global trade and FDI, rise of big businesses, labor mobility due to immigration, innovation with the creation of new industries etc. At that early stage Germany was a winner and Britain was a loser. However, nowadays, the opposite trend is occurring. Nowadays Britain is one of the winners of the new globalization wave, whereas Germany is considered at best a problematic case (if not a loser). Focusing mainly on industry we provide a comparative assessment. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/32169 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/32168 Title: Democracy and institutional change Authors: Kyriazis, Nicholas Abstract: The present essay analyses decision making procedures concerning economic issues such as the choice of public goods in the prototype democracy, Ancient Athens of the fourth century BC (the “Age of Demosthenes”). It analyses the link between political democracy, “economic” democracy, the emergence of new institutions and the finance of public goods like defence, education and “social security”. The prototype political democracy was advanced in questions of public administration, finance and institutions, on which political democracy was based. The paper concludes with some proposals as to what we could “learn” from the workings of “economic democracy” that is relevant for today’s democracies. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/32168 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/31814 Title: Trade regionalization, exchange rate policies and EU-US economic cooperation Authors: Thalassinos, Eleftherios Abstract: This paper demonstrates that trade regionalization has important monetary and exchange rate implications. It goes on and argues that EU increased importance in the monetary field following the euro’s introduction and the anticipated development of its international role may contain the hazard of confrontation between the major blocks and therefore lead to a system less stable than a unpopular system. Appropriate arrangements for cooperation between the poles will be crucial to the stability of the system. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/31814 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/31807 Title: The ideal-typical transition from fordism to post-fordism : a neopositivist problem setting Authors: Markantonatou, Maria Abstract: The present article discusses a fundamental argument of a series of regulation approaches. Although regulation approaches are heterogeneous, both in their premises and in their analytical instruments, this relatively common argument describes a shift at the level of the economy, the state and the organization of work: from Fordism to post-Fordism and from Keynesianism to neoliberalism. Despite the influence of this argument in economic and social theory and despite its contribution to recent debates about neoliberalization and the crisis of the welfare state, this transition also sets some methodological limitations presented in this article. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/31807 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z