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Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction
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Hardcover. Monetary union restored profitability but produced slow growth, mass unemployment, and insecurity and came under challenge, most dramatically in France, by working people from below. This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. Editor(s): Moss, Bernard H. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JPSN2; KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333963173
SKU
V9780333963173
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99-15
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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 ... Read more
Reviews for Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction
'This is a useful study which offers a critical and original assessment of the process of European integration. Bernie Moss tackles the neoliberal roots of the European project from the Treaty of Rome onwards. He shows how the EU pro-business agenda has been sustained over time and analyses its impact on the member states' economies. This approach is further substantiated ... Read more