Table Of ContentBRITAIN AND THE EEC
Recent Section F publications include
Jack Wiseman (editor) BEYOND POSITIVE ECONOMICS?
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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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.
