Steffen Lehndorff (ed.), Divisive integration. The triumph of failed ideas in Europe - revisited. Brussels 2015: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). http://www.etui.org/Publications2/Books/Divisive-integration.-The-triumph-of-failed-ideas-in-Europe-revisited
Abstract: This book is a follow-up to the ETUI 2012 volume 'The triumph of failed ideas'. The focus of the book is the weight attributed to the different economic and social development paths in ten individual EU countries, and their interaction with the austerity regime established at EU level which in fact is deepening the crisis rather than paving ways out of it. The most dangerous implication of this policy approach is, according to this study, that it is driving countries apart - misleadingly in the name of 'Europe', hence the title of the book 'divisive integration'. The main message of the book is that a gradual recovery is possible only if there is a change of course in individual countries that then triggers reactions in the policies of other countries and perturbations at the EU level. However, these changes in individual countries is no longer feasible without a green light or at least toleration from the level of the European institutions. full text (PDF) free download: http://www.etui.org/content/download/19023/145189/file/15+Divise+integration+Lehndorff+EN+Web+version.pdf Contents: Steffen Lehndorff Europe’s divisive integration – an overview Josep Banyuls and Albert Recio A crisis inside the crisis: Spain under a conservative neoliberalism Annamaria Simonazzi Italy’s long stagnation Maria Karamessini Greece as an international test-case: economic adjustment through a Troika/state-induced depression and social catastrophe James Wickham Irish paradoxes: the bursting of the bubbles and the curious survival of social cohesion Steffen Lehndorff Model or liability? The new career of the ‘German model’ Florence Jany-Catrice and Michel Lallement Conversion through inequality: the transformation of the French social model Christoph Hermann and Jörg Flecker Mastering the crisis but not the future: the Austrian model in the financial and economic crisis Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery Neoliberalism 2.0: crisis and austerity in the UK András Tóth Coming to the end of the via dolorosa? The rise of selective economic nationalism in Hungary Dominique Anxo The Swedish model in times of crisis: decline or resilience? Hans-Jürgen Urban Between crisis corporatism and revitalisation: trade union policy in the era of European financial market capitalism Janine Leschke, Sotiria Theodoropoulou and Andrew Watt Towards ‘Europe 2020’? Austerity and new economic governance in the EU Thorsten Schulten and Torsten Müller European economic governance and its intervention in national wage development and collective bargaining _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
