Title:Optimal Currency Area Revisited
Author(s):MERSCH, YvesDate:2011Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS DLAbstract:Several euro area member states are under increased market scrutiny although public finances in the euro area as a bloc are in a much better shape than in the US or Japan. The main reason is that the euro area is an alliance ...
Title:The Mediterranean and its Metaphors
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS DLAbstract:When referring to the Mediterranean sea, politicians, writers and religious leaders make frequent use of often contradictory metaphors: cradle of civilizations, and more precisely of the monotheist Abrahamic religion, ...
Title:Sexularism
Author(s):SCOTT, Joan W.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS DLAbstract:This paper addresses the sharp oppositions often made these days between secularism and gender equality, on the one side, and religion (especially Islam) and the oppression of women, on the other. It argues that we need ...
Title:Rapid Changes in Inequality: Present, past, and theory
Author(s):ROGOWSKI, RonDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS DLAbstract:Since about 1970, inequality of income and wealth has increased sharply in most industrialized countries – most strongly in the USA and UK, but also in almost all English-speaking countries and, more recently, in Germany, ...