Britain and the EEC: Proceedings of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Liverpool 1982 PDF
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BRITAIN AND THE EEC Recent Section F publications include Jack Wiseman (editor) BEYOND POSITIVE ECONOMICS? Lord Roll of Ipsden (editor) THE MIXED ECONOMY M. Gaskin (editor) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TOLERABLE SURVIVAL W. Beckerman (editor) SLOW GROWTH IN BRITAIN E. Nevin (editor) THE ECONOMICS OF DEVOLUTION W. Leontief (editor) STRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND ECONOMIC POLICY BRITAIN AND THE EEC Proceedings of Section F (Economics) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Liverpooll982 Edited by the Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP © The British Association for the Advancement of Science 1983 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1983 978-0-333-34690-7 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published 1983 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-0-333-34691-4 ISBN 978-1-349-17140-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-17140-8 Filmsetting by Vantage Photosetting Co Ltd Eastleigh and London Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors viii Introduction Roy Jenkins 1 1 Britain and the EEC: Present and Future Roy Jenkins 5 2 Britain and the EEC: Past and Present F. S. Northedge 15 3 The Common Agricultural Policy John Marsh 35 4 European Agriculture: the Way Forward Christopher Tugendhat 62 5 Regional Problems and Policy in the EEC Geoffrey Denton 72 6 The Impact of EEC Membership upon UK Industrial Performance Robert Grant 87 7 Britain, Europe and Macroeconomic Policy Francis Cripps 111 8 The European Monetary System - Past Developments, Future Prospects and Economic Rationale Geoffrey E. VVood 131 9 The European Community's Trade Policy Martin VVolf 151 10 Britain, the EEC and the Third World David VVa ll 17 8 11 The Political Institutions of the EEC: Functions and Future John Pinder 207 12 Political Cooperation in Europe Roger Morgan 230 Index 243 v Acknowledgements I should like to acknowledge the assistance I received from Dr David Reisman, Recorder of Section F, in the preparation of this book. I would also like to thank the local organising committee and the University of Liverpool for their hospitality to the British Association during its 1982 conference. R.J. vii Notes on the Contributors Francis Cripps is a Senior Research Officer at the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge, and a leading member of the Economic Policy Group in the Department which, since 1970, has developed a distinctive critique of national and international mac roeconomic policy. His main publications have been in the form of empirical analyses and policy assessments contributed to the Group's Economic Policy Review. Geoffrey Denton is Reader in Economics and Chairman, Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies, University of Reading. Robert Grant lectures in business economics at the City University, London. Previously he was economic adviser to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and lecturer in economics at the University of St Andrews. His publications have been on the subjects of competitive behaviour in industry, anti-trust policy and industrial policies. Roy Jenkins is Leader of the Social Democratic Party. He is a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary, and a former President of the Commission of the European Communities. He is Member of Parliament for Glasgow, Hillhead. John Marsh is Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Aberdeen. He is in addition Honorary Secretary of the Agricultural Economics Society, Independent Member of the Economic Develop ment Council for the Food Manufacturing Industries, and Minister's Appointed Member of the Potato Marketing Board. His research work has been conce,rn'rd with small farms, contract farming, the organisation of the market for cereals, and the problems of agricultural policy in Europe. Roger Morgan is currently Head of the European Centre for Political Studies at the Policy Studies Institute. He is also an Associate Member viii Notes on the Contributors IX of Nuffield College, Oxford, Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, and Visiting Professorial Fellow of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has written and edited a dozen books on European and international affairs, of which the most recent is Moder ates and Conservatives in Western Europe. F. S. Northedge was educated at Merton College, Oxford, Nottingham University and the London School of Economics. He has been a member of the Department of International Relations at the School since 1949 and Professor of International Relations since 1968. He is the author of numerous books on twentieth-century British foreign policy and the theory and practice of international politics. He is also a frequent broadcaster on the BBC World Service . .John Pinder is the Director of the Policy Studies Institute, London. He was formerly Director of Political and Economic Planning (PEP) and head of the economics section at the College of Europe, Bruges. His main publications have concerned the European Community, indus trial policy and East-West trade. He has recently been co-author of Policies for a Constrained Economy and National Industrial Strategies and the World Economy. Christopher Tugendhat is Vice President, Commission of the Euro pean Communities. He was a leader and feature writer for the Finan cial Times, 1970-6. He is the author of The Multinationals and of numerous other books and articles. David Wall is Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He has travelled extensively in the Third World as a consultant to various governments and international agencies. His current research interests include the determinants of international allocation of industrial activity. Martin WoH is Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, London. After taking the MPhil in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford, he was a staff member of the World Bank from 1971 to 1981. During that time he was for three years Senior Economist in the India Division and was also a member of the core team for the first World Development Report. He is co-author of Textile Quotas against Developing Countries (1981) and author of India's Exports (1982). X Notes on the Contributors Geoffrey E. Wood is a graduate of Aberdeen and Essex Universities. He is currently Director of the Centre for Banking and International Finance at the City University, London. His previous posts have been at Warwick University, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. He has published articles in, among other places, the Journal of International Economics, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the American Economic Review.
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