Monetary Union in Crisis

TOBY ABSE Lecturer in Modern European History at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER ALLEN Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USA ANDREAS BIELER Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham, UK GERALD FRIEDMAN Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA ERICK JONES Resident Associate Professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, USA JONATHAN MICHIE Sainsbury Chair of Management at the Birkbeck, University of London, UK

The European Union as Neo-Liberal Construction; B.H.Moss PART I: HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY The Neo-Liberal Constitution: EC Law and History; B.H.Moss Raisons d'être: The Failure of Constructive Integration; B.H.Moss The Theories of Integration: American Political Paradigms; B.H.Moss National Labor Regimes: The European Community in Class Context; B.H.Moss Socialist Challenge: Class Politics in France; B.H.Moss From ERM to EMU: Monetary Union and its Discontents; B.H.Moss PART II: MONETARIST FETTERS: THE QUANTIFIABLE FAILURE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY The Economic Failure of European Integration; G.Friedman PART III: THE MONETARIST TURN IN MEMBER STATES: NEO-LIBERAL, SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC, COMMUNIST 'Ordo-Liberalism' Trumps Keynesianism in German Political Economy; C.Allen The Political Economy of the UK, 1979-2002; J.Michie The 'Monetarist' Turn in Belgium and the Netherlands; E.Jones Italian Communism and the Long Road to Austerity; T.Abse Transnational Neo-Liberalism and the Demise of the Swedish Model; A.Bieler