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Background
Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is participating in the general political and economic integration of Europe. It joined NATO in 1949 and the EEC (now the EU) in 1973. However, the country has opted out of certain elements of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty, including the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and issues concerning certain justice and home affairs.
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Economy
This thoroughly modern market economy features high-tech agriculture, up-to-date small-scale and corporate industry, extensive government welfare measures, comfortable living standards, a stable currency, and high dependence on foreign trade. Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus. Government objectives include streamlining the bureaucracy and further privatization of state assets. The government has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but Denmark has decided not to join 12 other EU members in the euro; even so, the Danish Krone remains pegged to the euro. Given the sluggish state of the European economy, growth in 2003 was a mere 0.3%.
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Rationality and Power : Democracy in Practice (Morality and Society Series), by Bent Flyvbjerg and Steven Sampson -- $18.00
After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark, by Andrew Buckser -- $26.95
New Perspectives On Retailing And Store Patronage Behavior: A Study Of The Interface Between Retailers And Consumers (International Studies in Entrepreneurship), by TORBEN HANSEN and HANS STUBBE SOLGAARD -- $85.00
Decent Work in Denmark: Employment, Social Efficiency, and Economic Security, by Werner Sengenberger and Philippe Egger -- $14.95
Innovation, Growth and Social Cohesion: The Danish Model (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation), by Bengt-Ake Lundvall -- $85.00
Invoking a Transnational Metropolis: The Making of the Oresund Region, by Per-Olof Berg, Anders Linde-Laursen, and Orvar Lofgren -- $31.00
Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competencies: The remarkable success of small and medium-sized Enterprises in the Danish Business System, by Peter Karnoe, Peer Hull Kristensen, Poul Houman Andersen, and Peer Hull Krisstensen --
Public Service Employment Relations in Europe: Transformation, Modernization or Inertia? (Routledge Studies in Employment Relations), by Stephen Bach -- $45.95
China and Denmark: Relations Since 1674, by Kjeld Erik Brdsgaard and Mads Kirkeback --
The Criminal Career : The Danish Longitudinal Study (Cambridge Studies in Criminology), by Britta Kyvsgaard, Alfred Blumstein, and David Farrington -- $50.00
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