1st Edition

The European Union After the Crisis

Edited By Hugo Radice Copyright 2015
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

The global financial and economic crisis struck the European Union and its member states with particular force from 2009 onwards. The immediate problem was the knock-on effects of the crisis on each country’s public finances. Bank bail-outs imposed a massive increase in sovereign debt on member states, while the economic recession unavoidably led to ballooning budget deficits via the usual... Read more

Introduction

Hugo Radice

In Memoriam Uwe Becker, 1951-2014

1. Variegated Capitalism, das Modell Deutschland and the Eurozone Crisis

Bob Jessop

2. The Heterogeneity of Capitalism in Crisis-Ridden Europe

Uwe Becker

3. German Ordoliberalism as Agenda Setter for the Euro Crisis: Myth Trumps Reality

Brigitte Young

4. Exploring the Keynesian-Ordoliberal Divide: Flexibility and Convergence in French and German Leaders’ Economic Ideas During the Euro-Crisis

Femke Van Esch

5. From the Maastricht Treaty to Post-Crisis EMU: The ECB and Germany as Drivers of Change

Arie Krampf

6. Enforcing Austerity in Europe: The Structural Deficit as a Policy Target

Hugo Radice

7. The European Social Model After the Crisis: The End of a functionalist Fantasy?

Charles Dannreuther

Biography

Hugo Radice is a Life Fellow in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, where he taught economics and politics from 1978 to 2008. He now works as an independent researcher in political economy, with particular reference to the recent economic crisis.