Society and Economics in Europe Disparity versus Convergence?
This book takes stock of the lessons to be learned from the experiences of different countries on their way to a transition into a unified Europe. It demonstrates how the project of a unified Europe is a social pilot project that is unique in human histor
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ciety and Economics in Europe Disparity versus Convergence?
Society and Economics in Europe
Savvas Katsikides Hardy Hanappi •
Editors
Society and Economics in Europe Disparity versus Convergence?
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Editors Savvas Katsikides Department of Social and Political Sciences University of Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus
ISBN 978-3-319-21430-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21431-3
Hardy Hanappi Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics University of Technology of Vienna Vienna Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-21431-3
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Preface
In the James Clavell novel “Shogun” which plays in Japan around 1600, the Jesuit Priest Martin Alvito from Portugal, gained a great reputation and lived at the court of the local emperor, doing business with the mission to extend the power of his order and enhance trade with Asia. At the same time John Blackburn from England navigates his vessel “Erasmus” for the same reasons and landed as prisoner in Japan. The center of the Jesuit power in those days was the Hieronymites Monastery, a catholic order which is located in Lisbon (Belem), in Portugal, a huge building in front of the sea. On December 13, 2007, the Treaty of Lisbon was signed at the monastery, laying down the relight of the economy of the European Union and its growth. Holland (2006) gives a sketch focus on the Lisbon Treaty and underlined that “The Lisbon strategy is an effort to universalize information access across European communities. This strategy set the ambitious goal of ensuring that every citizen would have the skills needed to live and work in the information society. The strategy aims to create equal access for all citizens to e-information, e-goods and e-services, e-learning, e-training an
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