Title:The Global Order as a Potential Case of Background Injustice
Author(s):RONZONI, MiriamDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Is the global order unjust? And if so, why? The paper argues that the central question to be asked within the debate on global distributive and economic justice is not whether the global order is characterized by the ...
Title:Global Public Goods amidst a Plurality of Legal Orders: A symposium
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; CARON, David D.Date:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A public good (an example is a lighthouse) can be produced by private parties. However, they rarely are. Rather, such goods are generally thought of in economics as a type of commodity that government often provides and ...
Title:Global Security Challenges for Europe: Structural and strategic changes in energy markets and major implications
Author(s):COSTA SILVA, AntónioDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper covers the analysis of the energy markets, emerging trends, oil price evolution and oil shocks and focus on the identification of the major energy game changers. Furthermore the issues of the energy security in ...
Title:Global Tax Governance: Work in Progress?
Author(s):WOUTERS, Jan; MEUWISSEN, KatrienDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The international financial crisis which broke out in 2008 has had a major impact on fiscal sustainability of countries all over the world. Countries have responded with varying measures. Moreover, in the aftermath of the ...
Title:Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
Author(s):VANNESTE, TijlDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. Trust was an important element within this cross-cultural network ...
Title:Global Trends: Gender studies in Europe and the US
Author(s):CALVI, GiuliaDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses the benefits and challenges of transnational approaches for modern European history. It reconstructs the origins of a particular Anglo-German entanglement: the meat essence OXO, originally a German ...
Title:Global vs. Low Carbon Economy: The Case of the Revised European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Author(s):AHNER, Nicole; MEEUS, LeonardoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Europe is tightening its climate change policy and with that its pollution control legislation, supposedly to lead the way towards a low carbon economy. As the rest of the world is lagging behind in greenhouse gas emission ...
Title:Global Warming and Climate Policies
Author(s):GUESNERIE, RogerDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:The paper starts reviewing some basics of the climate science and economics of the
greeenhouse effect. It stresses the nature and extent of uncertainty on both sides as well
as the political background of present climate ...