| Monetary Union in Crisis: The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Moss, B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333963172 ISBN-13: 9780333963173 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: Moss offers a radically new interpretation of the European Community and Monetary Union as a neo-liberal project. The book places EC development in the context of the post-war long wave, labor mobilization and political class conflict, stressing its role as a Hayekian federation or dike to dampen growth and defeat inflationary working-class demands. The assessment is sustained by a study of EC origins, constitution and policies, econometric evidence, a critique of existing literature and member-state case studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Business & Economics | Money & Monetary Policy - Political Science | Globalization |
| Dewey: 332.494 |
| LCCN: 2004053036 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.6" W x 8.82" (1.10 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
