Opis: Should Britain Leave EU - Vidya Mahambare, Eric Nowell, Patrick Minford

This controversial, challenging and timely book carefully reviews the economic aspects of the UK's relationship with the EU: trade in goods and services, the single market, tax and regulation, public finances, and monetary policy. The authors argues that the EU has chosen to place political integration before market liberalisation and has followed policies of protection not merely in agriculture, but also in manufacturing trade, while leaving continental countries' restrictions on trade in services largely intact. The UK, meanwhile, has developed into a service-based and relatively deregulated economy, and a net importer not merely of food but also of manufactured goods. As such, the book finds, it is severely damaged by the EU's current policies, as indeed is the general mass of the people within the rest of the EU. The book goes on to consider ways in which the political advantages of collaboration within Europe can be maintained while eliminating this damage. It suggests that either: EU policies should radically change towards the adoption of new policies of free trade, competition and deregulation (to the great benefit of EU citizens generally), or; the UK should renegotiate the UK's terms of membership to avoid the damaging effects of existing EU policies, or; the UK should simply leave the EU, continuing with co-operation in chosen fields. "'This penetrating and important analysis of the economic cost of the EU will no doubt be brushed aside by some but should be taken seriously by anybody who dares to think dispassionately. Patrick Minford and his colleagues have constructed a formidable case that cannot be ignored. Europe's so-called free trade turns out to be anything but free. Hopefully this book will prise open a more rational argument.' - The Rt Hon Lord Lamont of Lerwick; 'This impressive study does two things brilliantly. It provides me with my first ever opportunity to agree with Patrick Minford on anything. It provides the public with a penetrating analysis of just what's wrong with our relationship with the EU. It isn't good for us.' - Austin Mitchell, MP, House of Commons, UK"

Szczegóły: Should Britain Leave EU - Vidya Mahambare, Eric Nowell, Patrick Minford

Tytuł: Should Britain Leave EU
Autor: Vidya Mahambare, Eric Nowell, Patrick Minford
Producent: Edward Elgar
ISBN: 9781845423797
Rok produkcji: 2005
Ilość stron: 224
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Should Britain Leave EU - Vidya Mahambare, Eric Nowell, Patrick Minford