Book Reviews Laursen, Finn (ed.). The Political Economy of European Integration The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1995. Pp. ix, 312. Dfl 195: £88; $145. A thoughtful book edited by Finn Laursen. It represents the contributions of the new generation of' political -economists to the grander and more structural problems of European Integration. It is a far more Americanized work compared to, say, Pelkmans and Jacquemin, both in methodology (modeling, game-theory, implicit premises of what counts as evidence and what you look for as cause) and is confidently theoretical. The first three chapters are more in the nature of system analysis, the rest are case studies. The confidence of the volume and its authors is also the hallmark of weakness: Theirs is THE way to understand the problems and THE way to think of their solution. But then why should political economists be different from economists simpliciter and for that matter from lawyers and politologists. Shocking price which even libraries will resist. JHHW
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