Asymmetric crisis in Europe and possible futures
Subtitle: critical political economy and post-Keynesian perspectives
By: edited by Johannes Jäger and Elisabeth Springler
Edition: 1 Edition.
Series: RIPE series in global political economy
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781138790766; 9781315764009
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic integration; Financial crises; Politics and government
Description: "The crisis in Europe is often discussed as a crisis of European integration or a crisis of national economies within Europe. Both the 'methodological Europeanism' and 'methodological nationalism' miss out the important links between economic and political processes at different spatial scales within Europe, and therefore, asymmetries and phenomena of uneven development. In addition, a discussion of possible scenarios which systematically addresses the implications of anti-crisis policies is missing. This volume seeks to close this gap by systematically integrating the analysis of economic policy or 'technical' solutions to the crisis within a broader framework of political economy. It argues that combining critical political economy approaches and post-Keynesian perspectives allows for a systematic understanding of the economic and political dimensions of the crisis. Although both approaches have the capacity to deal with asymmetries and uneven development, the heterogeneity in Europe has been an often largely neglected dimension of analysis. However, this recent crisis has shown that this is an essential dimension which has to be addressed in order to better understand the dynamics of European development and integration. Hence, this book aims to deal with asymmetries in Europe and to bridge the gap between the two perspectives. This work will initiate an integrative debate that is crucial for a deeper understanding of the current crisis and is an important resource for all students and scholars of IPE, European political economy and European politics."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The European crisis in a global perspective; title: The crisis of European integration and economic reason : orthodoxy versus heterodoxy / Magnus Ryner; title: Linking a post-Keynesian approach to critical political economy : debt-driven growth, export-driven growth and the crisis in Europe / Engelbert Stockhammer and Karsten Köhler; title: Banking or macroeconomic regulation? cross-border issues in the EU crisis / Jan Toporowski; title: The uneven nature of European integration, European crisis, and crisis management; title: The European crisis and the rise of German power / Alan Cafruny; title: Uneven and dependent development in Europe : the crisis and its implications / Joachim Becker, Johannes Jäger and Rudy Weissenbacher; title: Uneven development and "European crisis constitutionalism", or : the reasons for and conditions of a "passive revolution in trouble" / Hans-Jürgen Bieling; title: Enhancing "competitiveness" in response to the European crisis : a wrong and dangerous obsession / Angela Wigger; title: Confronting the failure of the European monetary union / Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas; title: Possible futures; title: Which future for Europe? : a scenario analysis of European integration / Torsten Niechoj; title: Social Europe and the crisis of the European Union / John Grahl; title: From new constitutionalism to authoritarian constitutionalism : new economic governance and the state of European democracy / Lukas Oberndorfer; title: Labour and the crisis in Europe / Mònica Clua-Losada and Laura Horn; title: Concluding remarks: conclusions and possible futures / Johannes Jäger and Elisabeth Springler.