Monetary Union in Crisis
ISBN:
978-0-333-96317-3
Auflage:
2005
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan UK
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
10.12.2004
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Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
324
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This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo-liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and strengthened the hand of labor. It was founded on the vision of a free market untrammelled by public intervention and worked to ensure competition, sound money and profitability against the inflationary force of workers and unions and the welfare state. Monetary union in particular restored profitability but produced slow growth, mass unemployment, and insecurity and came under challenge, most dramatically in France, by working people from below. This view is substantiated by an economically based study of member-state performance and complemented by a series of national studies on the monetarist turn by leading scholars.
Biografische Anmerkung
TOBY ABSE Lecturer in Modern European History at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
CHRISTOPHER ALLEN Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USA
ANDREAS BIELER Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK
GERALD FRIEDMAN Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
ERICK JONES Resident Associate Professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, USA
JONATHAN MICHIE Sainsbury Chair of Management at the Birkbeck, University of London, UK
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