Europe As an Economic Powerhouse How the Old Continent Is Gaining New Strength

[!cover copy Europe as an Economic Powerhouse!] [!front cover!] Europe as an Economic Powerhouse How the old continent is gaining new strength Heino Fabbender [!spine!] Europe as an Economic Powerhouse Heino Fabbender [!insert KP logo!] [!inside front flap!] Europe as an Economic Powerhouse recommends a way forward for Europe by concentrating on four critical objectives: completing the single market; adopting smart regulation; systematically pursuing category definition; transforming the state system. In order to achieve economic supremacy, Heino Fabbender argues that Europe must continue the harmonization of educational systems, find a solution to the demographic problem and increase its involvement in the ongoing process of globalization. [!inside back flap!] Dr Heino Fabbender is a director emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a lecturer at Leipzig Graduate School of Management. In the past six years, he has established Perspektive Deutschland, the world's largest online survey of socio-political issues. [!back cover!] Europe as an Economic Powerhouse compares the economic models of the United States and Europe and maintains that Europe's current economic performance is far below its true potential. Dr Heino Fabbender demonstrates how to turn this potential into reality by guiding Europe back to higher growth in the economy, in productivity and in employment. A new economic model for Europe is proposed to enable it to rival that of the United States; and a methodology is set out to help achieve this target. The state of the European Union is analysed and current best practices in the United States are also examined. However, Fabbender stresses that the answer to Europe's problems is not to simply reproduce the US template for success in Europe. Instead, he identifies a 'European way' of sustainably boosting productivity to transform Europe's potential into real growth, turning the fragile continent into an economic powerhouse that is on equal footing with the United States. 25.00 US$49.95 ISBN-10: 0-7494-4556-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-7494-4556-0 [!insert barcode!] Business and management/ International economies [!insert KP logo!] Kogan Page 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN United Kingdom www.kogan-page.co.uk Kogan Page US 525 South 4th Street, #241 Philadelphia PA 19147 USAFassbender, Heino is the author of 'Europe As an Economic Powerhouse How the Old Continent Is Gaining New Strength', published 2007 under ISBN 9780749445560 and ISBN 0749445564.