Monetary Union in Crisis

TOBY ABSE Lecturer in Modern European History at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKCHRISTOPHER ALLEN Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USAANDREAS BIELER Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham, UKGERALD FRIEDMAN Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USAERICK JONES Resident Associate Professor of European Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, USAJONATHAN MICHIE Sainsbury Chair of Management at the Birkbeck, University of London, UK

'This is a useful study which offers a critical and original assessment of the process of European integration. Bernie Moss tackles the neoliberal roots of the European project from the Treaty of Rome onwards. He shows how the EU pro-business agenda has been sustained over time and analyses its impact on the member states' economies. This approach is further substantiated by a number of contributions on national contexts written by a group of experts. This work should be welcome by students and scholars working on the EU. It is published at a crucial time following the enlargement to Central European countries and the debate on the European Constitution. This well documented and challenging study provides key explanations to the social and economic problems that the EU is currently facing.' - Dr Philippe Marliere, Senior Lecturer in French and European Politics, University College London, UK 'This is a useful study which offers a critical and original assessment of the process of European integration. This work should be welcome by students and scholars working on the EU. It is published at a crucial time following the enlargement to Central European countries and the debate on the European Constitution. This well documented and challenging study provides key explanations to the social and economic problems that the EU is currently facing.' - Dr Philippe Marliere, Senior Lecturer in French and European Politics, University College London, UK 'This book is a very good analysis of the European venture and its remorseless drive to ever-closer union, particularly via monetary union. It brings it all down to basic economic dynamics, rather than the naive arguments for and against.' - Austin Mitchell, MP, Socialist Campaign Group News 'Monetary Union in Crisis is a timely reminder that many of the problems which the European Union faces are even more deep-seated that the current rows over the EU's Constitution and its budget.' - Councillor John Mills, Camden New Journal

• 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