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European and American authors discuss the European Community's 1985 far-reaching design for regional integration.
In 1985, the European Community began creating a far-reaching design for regional integration. This single market plan called for European market barriers to fall, a unified market of over 320 million consumers to emerge, goods and capital to flow across national borders, business to benefits from new market opportunities, and other dramatic economic gains to be achieved.
But will all go according to plan? Troubling issues remain to be defined in practice. The European and American authors of the chapters in this volume temper enthusiasm with skepticism as they take a closer look at these issues in the context of a number of key economic areas.

Public Interest Awareness. Most people, including many in the business community, are surprised to learn that international tradein aviation services is highly restricted, to the detriment of a variety of trade, tourism, and economic development interests. Aviation is a prime component of modern economic development, and we need to raise the awareness of the vital public interests involved in aviation policy, both here and abroad.

Mark Perlman

Mark Perlman (1923-2006) - Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh 1963-93 (Emeritus); Editor, Journal of Economic Literature 1969-81; Co-Editor, Journal of Evolutionary Economics 1991-96.

He was an influential historian of economic thought, the co-author with Charles McCann Jnr of The Pillars of Economic Understanding - the first volume published under the subtitle "Ideas and Traditions" (1998), the second as "Factors and Markets" (2000). He was also the founding editor of the Journal of Economic Literature, a leader in its genre, and created a journal for the US Department of State, Portfolio on International Economic Perspectives, as well as a journal for the Schumpeter Society, the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

His first speciality had been labour economics. His doctoral dissertation on labour arbitration in Australia, published as Judges in Industry (1954), is still much cited, second only in importance to A New Province for Law and Order (1922), the articles of Henry Bournes Higgins, the judge who drafted the early law. Perlman's later work on the subject included Labor Union Theories in America: background and development (1958) and The Machinists: a new study in American trade Unionism (1961).

Claude E. Barfield

Claude E. Barfield is a Resident Scholar and Director of Trade and Science and Technology Studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. His areas of research and expertise include international trade, science and technology policy, and U.S. competitiveness. His most recent publications include, Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization, and The New World of Services: Implications for the United States (co-author Cordula Thum). In 1999, he was the co-author (with Mark Groombridge) of Tiger By the Tail: China and the WTO. In addition, he has recently directed the publication of three major multiauthored studies by the institute: Science for the 21st Century: The Bush Report Revisited (1997); The Future of Biomedical Research (1997); and The United States and East Asia: Trade and Investment for the Next Decade (1997).

In addition, from 1988 to 1992, he directed the AEI project entitled “The United States and Europe in the 1990s” which produced four volumes: Political and Social Change: The U.S. Faces a United Europe; Capital Markets and Trade: the U.S. Faces a United Europe; Industry, Services and Agriculture in the 1990s: the U.S. Faces a United Europe; and Defense and Security: the U.S. Faces a United Europe.

Dr. Barfield has testified often before congressional committees and has appeared on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, as well as on NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Nightly Business Report.

Prior to coming to AEI, Dr. Barfield taught at Yale University and the University of Munich, served in the Ford Administration, and was the co-staff director of President Carter’s Commission for a National Agenda for the 80s. He received a BA from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.