1st Edition
Political Economy of Europe History, Ideologies and Contemporary Challenges
Introduction
What is Political Economy
Diachronic and synchronic approaches - and their formalisation
1. History
Introduction: Periodization of European History
1.1 From 1900 to 1945
1.2 From 1945 to 1990
1.3 From 1991 to 2008
1.4 From 2008 to 2020
2. Ideology
Introduction: The Impact of Paradigms
2.1 The market-oriented Paradigm
Welfare: From Feudalism to integrated capitalism
2.2 Marx’ Paradigm
Class Struggle: From factories to the New Left
2.3 The Fascist Paradigm
Hierarchy: From racism to planned extinction
2.4 Newly emerging Paradigms
Movements: From progressive political parties to worldwide insurrection
3. Structure and Challenges
3.1 Economic Structure of Europe
3.2 Political Structure of Europe
3.3 Challenges
3.3.1 The Social Coherence Challenge
3.3.2 The Migration Challenge
3.3.3 The Environmental Challenge
3.3.4. The Corona Virus Challenge
3.3.5 Europe’s Place in the Global Division of Labour
4. Afterthoughts on Europe’s Future
4.1 Global Value Chains and continental political units
4.2 The EURO as the world’s currency?
4.3 Europe’s role in global finance
Biography
Hardy Hanappi is ad personam chair for Political Economy at the European Commission and director of the Vienna Institute for Political Economy Research (VIPER), Austria. He is the author of South-East Europe in Evolution (Routledge 2015) and co-editor of Theory and Method of Evolutionary Political Economy (Routledge 2017) and Evolutionary Political Economy in Action (Routledge 2017).
