1st Edition

Between Collapse, Integration and Co-Transformation Universalist and Particularist Economic Ideas and Practices in Europe since the 1970s

Edited By Kiran Klaus Patel Copyright 2026
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

This book comprises a collection of essays that delves into the economic history of Europe since the 1970s, offering a fresh perspective on the period by examining the interplay between universalist and particularist claims to validity. By exploring how these claims were constructed, justified, and contested, this book sheds new light on the ways they shaped political and social change in... Read more

Introduction - Between collapse, integration and co-transformation: universalist and particularist economic ideas and practices in Europe since the 1970s

Kiran Klaus Patel

 

1. Can Western economics survive in an anti-Western regime? Intellectual universalism and the internationalization of economic science in Russia

Alexander Libman and Mikhail Sokolov

 

2. From the Washington Consensus to the Warsaw Consensus: ‘shock therapies’ as a neoliberal success story

Philipp Ther

 

3. Western trade unions confronting multinational corporations (MNCs), international regulations and the defence of special interests (1970–95)

Sandrine Kott

 

4. Universalizing the social market economy c.1978: stepping away from institutions and towards discourse

Benjamin Thomas

 

5. How universalism and particularism clashed in East Germany in the 1990s: a case study in post-communist privatization from rural Lusatia

Max Trecker

 

6. Universalizing particularisms: the EC quest to establish wine appellations of origin as global practice

Lisbeth Matzer

 

7. ‘Desafio’ or ‘modelo’? The European Union’s international trade and Brazil, 1980s–90s

Kiran Klaus Patel

 

8. Marketizing climate risk: an actuarial history of the European Union emissions trading system

Grace Ballor

Biography

Kiran Klaus Patel holds the chair for modern history at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich where he is also one of the co-directors of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Universalism and Particularism in Contemporary European History.