Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/a4fqAT Monetary Union in Crisis The European Union as a Neo-Liberal Construction By: B. Moss Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9780333963173, 0333963172 eText ISBN: 9780230524002, 0230524001 Copyright year: 2005 Format: PDF Available from $ 99.00 USD SKU 9780230524002 This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo-liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and strengthened the hand of labor. It was founded on the vision of a free market untrammelled by public intervention and worked to ensure competition, sound money and profitability against the inflationary force of workers and unions and the welfare state. Monetary union in particular restored profitability but produced slow growth, mass unemployment, and insecurity and came under challenge, most dramatically in France, by working people from below. This view is substantiated by an economically based study of member-state performance and complemented by a series of national studies on the monetarist turn by leading scholars.
