Monetary Union in Crisis - The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction (Paperback, 1st ed. 2005)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	2005
Editors:	B. Moss
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	324
Edition:	1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-42755-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Macroeconomics > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-349-42755-1
Barcode:	9781349427550

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