Books by Nicolas (Indiana University) Spulber

Spulber examines historically the changes, debates, and innovations which have shaped the role of the state in relation to different types of economy - covering a wide range of issues concerning the public and private sectors, and essential to an understanding of this important issue.

This work focuses on the challenges the American economy has faced during the post-World War II era, and on the twenty-first-century challenges of Japan, Germany, and the entire European Union. The author challenges the view that the US economy has experienced a post-war decline, and illustrates how the economy will experience growth and change.

Examines the three major transformations that the country underwent from the early 1860s to 2000. The three transitions originated within different socio-economic settings, but have had a similar primary goal, namely the changing of the economy's ownership pattern in the hopes of providing a better basis for subsequent development.