Global capitalist crisis and the future of the European project

Globalisation and European Integration: Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 218-240

  Overbeek, Henk ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859630339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203122785     Document Type: Chapter

References (81)

1. Amato, G., Verhofstadt, G. Et al. (2011) A plan to save the euro, and curb the speculators, Financial Times, 4 July, 7.
2. Arrighi, G. (1994) The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, London: Verso.
3. Ashman, S., Fine, B. And Newman, S. (2010) The Crisis in South Africa: Neoliberalism, Financialization and Uneven and Combined Development, in L. Panitch, S. Albo and V Chibber (eds.) The Crisis This Time, Socialist Register 2011, 174-95.
4. Balibar, E. (2010) ‘Europe is a dead political project’, The Guardian, 25 May, available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/25/eu-crisis-catastrophic-conse-quences.
5. Baran, P. And Sweezy, P. (1966) Monopoly Capital. An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order, Harmondsworth: Pelican Books.
6. Becker, U. (2003) ‘Competitive corporatism? National and transnational elements in the Dutch employment “miracle”’, in H. Overbeek (ed.) The Political Economy ofEuropean Employment, London: Routledge, 154-75.
7. Bellofiore, R., Garibaldo, F. And Halevi, J. (2010) ‘The Global Crisis and the Crisis of European Neomercantilism’, in L. Panitch, G. Albo and V Chibber (eds.) The Crisis This Time, Socialist Register 2011, 120-46.
8. Bohle, D. (2009) ‘Race to the Bottom? Transnational Companies and Reinforced Competition in the Enlarged European Union’, in B. Van Apeldoorn, J. Drahokoupil and L. Horn (eds.) Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: from Lisbon to Lisbon, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 163-86.
9. Cafruny, A. W. And Talani, L. S. (2011) ‘Economic and Geopolitical Dimensions of the Crisis of the Eurozone’, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, 16-19 March 2011.
10. Cox, R. W. (1992) ‘Global Perestroika’, in R. Miliband and L. Panitch (eds.) Socialist Register 1992: New World Order, London: Merlin Press, 23-44.
11. De Grauwe, P. (2011) ‘Only the ECB can halt Eurozone contagion’, Financial Times, 4 August, 9.
12. De Haan, J., Oosterloo, S. And Schoenmaker, D. (2009) European Financial Markets and Institutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Dicken, P. (2004) Global Shift. Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century, 4th edition, London: Sage.
14. Duménil, G. And Lévy, D. (2011) The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
15. Dünhaupt, P. (2010) ‘Financialization and the rentier income share-evidence from the USA and Germany’, IMK Working Paper 2/2010, Düsseldorf: Hans Böckler Stiftung.
16. Economic Report of the President (2008) US Government Printing Office, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/download.html.
17. Economic Report of the President (2010) US Government Printing Office, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/download.html.
18. The Economist (2007) ‘Houses built on sand’, 13 September, http://www.economist.com/node/9804125.
19. Epstein, G. And Power, D. (2002) ‘The Return ofFinance and Finance’s Returns: Recent Trends in Rentier Incomes in OECD Countries, 1960-2000’, PERI Research Brief2002-2.
20. EuroMemoGroup (2010) Confronting the Crisis: Austerity or Solidarity, Euromemorandum 2010-2011.
21. Featherstone, K. (2011) ‘The Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis and EMU: A Failing State in a Skewed Regime’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 49 (20), 193-217.
22. Fennema, M. And Van Der Pijl, K. (1987) El Triunfo del Neoliberalismo, Santo Domingo: Ediciones de Taller.
23. Financial Times (2010) ‘Goldman Sachs plays key role in rescue’, 29 January, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fb84df2e-0c75-11df-a941-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V6OWWN73.
24. Financial Times (2011a) ‘G7 nations in US$25 bn yen sell-off’, 19-20 March, 1.
25. Financial Times (2011b) ‘Athens must be put under the gun’, 10 May, editorial comment, 8.
26. Financial Times (2011c) ‘East European states push back entry dates’, 13 June, 5.
27. Financial Times (2011d) ‘Markets rocked as debt crisis deepens’, 12 July, 1.
28. Financial Times (2011e) ‘Spain occupies the Eurozone frontline’, 1 August, editorial comment, 6.
29. Foster, J. B. (2007) ‘The Financialization of Capitalism’, Monthly Review, 58 (11), April, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0407jbf.htm.
30. Foster, J. B. And Magdoff, F. (2008) ‘Financial Implosion and Stagnation. Back to the Real Economy’, Monthly Review, December, http://www.monthlyreview.org/081201foster-magdoff.php.
31. Fröbel, F., Heinrichs, F. And Kreye, O. (1980) The New International Division of Labour. Structural Unemployment in Industrialised Countries and Industrialisation in Developing Countries, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
32. Gill, S. R. (1995) ‘Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neoliberalism’, Millennium Journal of International Studies, 24 (3): 399-423.
33. Goralczyk, D. (1975) Die Marxsche Theorie der Weltmarktbewegung des Kapitals und die Rekonstruktion des Weltmarkts nach 1945, in Frank Deppe, ed., Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG). Zur politischen Ökonomie der westeuropäischen Integration, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 14-52.
34. Harvey, D. (1990) The Condition of 'Postmodernity. An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, Cambridge: Blackwell.
35. Harvey, D. (2003) The New Imperialism, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
36. Holman, O. (1992) ‘Introduction. Transnational Class Strategy and the New Europe’, in: O. Holman (ed.), European Unification in the 1990s. Myth and Reality, special issue of International Journal of Political Economy, 22 (1), 3-23.
37. Holman, O. (1996) Integrating Southern Europe. EC Expansion and the Transnationalisation of Spain, London: Routledge.
38. Holman, O. (1998) ‘Integrating Eastern Europe. EU Expansion and the Double Transformation in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary’, in O. Holman, H. Overbeek and M. Ryner (eds.) Neoliberal Hegemony and the Political Economy of European Restructuring (I), special issue of the International Journal of Political Economy, 28 (2), 12-43.
39. Horn, L. (forthcoming) The Transformation of EU Corporate Governance Regulation-Towards a Marketisation of Corporate Control, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
40. Hudson, M. (2010) ‘“Drop Dead Economics”: The Financial Crisis in Greece and the European Union. The Wealthy Won’t Pay Their Taxes, So Labor Must Do So’, Global Research, 11 May, www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context+va&aid=19107.
41. Hudson, M. (2011) ‘The Financial Road to Serfdom. How Bankers Use the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era’, Global Research, 13 June, http://www.globalresearch.
42. Hudson, M. And Sommers, J. (2011) ‘The Spectre Haunting Europe: Debt Defaults, Austerity, and Death of the “Social Europe” Model’, Global Research, 18 January, www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php
43. Hung, H. (2008) ‘Rise of China and the global overaccumulation crisis’, Review of International Political Economy, 15 (2), 149-79.
44. Husson, M. (2011) ‘The Global Effects of the Economic Crisis: A European Strategy for the Left’, Global Research, 10 January, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22708n, last accessed 10 February 2011.
45. Ivanova, M. (2011) ‘Can “It” Happen Again: The Limits of Money Artistry’, Critique 39 (2), 196-216.
46. Konings, M. (2008) ‘European finance in the American mirror: financial change and the reconfiguration of competitiveness’, Contemporary Politics, 14 (3), 253-75.
47. Krippner, G. R. (2005) ‘The financialization of the American economy’, Socio-Economic Review, 3, 173-208.
48. Krugman, P. (2011) ‘The Hijacked Crisis’, New York Times, 11 August.
49. Lapavitsas, C. (2011) ‘Euro exit strategy crucial for Greeks’, The Guardian, 21 June.
50. Maddison, A. (2006) The World Economy, Paris: OECD Development Centre Studies.
51. Maddison, A. (2007) The Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD. Essays in MacroEconomic History, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
52. Magdoff, H. (1992) ‘Globalisation: To what end?’, in R. Miliband and L. Panitch (eds.) Socialist Register 1992: New World Order, London: Merlin Press, pp. 45ff.
53. Mandel, E. (1962) Marxist Economic Theory, London: The Merlin Press.
54. Mandel, E. (1972) Der Spätkapitalismus, Versuch einer marxistischen Erklärung, Frankfurt a/M: Suhrkamp Verlag.
55. Mandel, E. (1980) Long Waves of Capitalist Development, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
56. Marx, K. (1863) ‘Theories of Surplus Value’, chapter 17; http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-surplus-value/ch17.htm, last accessed 10 June 2011.
57. Monti, M. And Goulard, S. (2011) ‘Eurobonds are the only answer’, Financial Times, 21 July, 11.
58. Nesvetailova, A. And Palan, R. (2008) ‘A very North Atlantic credit crunch: geopolitical implications of the global liquidity crisis’, Journal of International Affairs, 62 (1), 165-85.
59. Overbeek, H. (1990) Global Capitalism and National Decline: The Thatcher Decade in Perspective, London: Unwin Hyman.
60. Palma, J. B. (2009) ‘The revenge of the market on the rentier. Why neo-liberal reports of the end of history turned out to be premature’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33 (4), 829-69.
61. Panico, C. (2010) ‘The Causes ofthe Debt Crisis in Europe and the Role of Regional Integration’, PERI Working Papers, 234, www.umass.edu/peri/, last accessed 10 June 2011.
62. Pollack, M. (1998) ‘Beyond Left and Right. Neo-liberalism and Regulated Capitalism in the Treaty of Amsterdam’, Working Paper Series in European Studies, 2/1998, http://aei.pitt.edu/8994/, last accessed 10 May 2010.
63. Sachs, J. (2011) ‘Greece can be saved-here is how to do it’, Financial Times, 1 July, 9.
64. Schwartz, N. And Dash, E. (2010) ‘Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide’, New York Times, 25 February, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/business/global/25swaps.html, last accessed 18 March 2011.
65. Der Spiegel (2010) ‘How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to mask its True Debt’, 8 February, http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,676634,00.html, last accessed 15 August 2011.
66. Stiglitz, J. (2011) ‘Now the central bank must act’, Financial Times, 21 July, 11.
67. Sweezy, P. (1968) The Theory of Capitalist Development. Principles of Marxian Political Economy, New York: Monthly Review Press, original 1942.
68. UNCTAD (2011) World Investment Report 2011, New York/Geneva: United Nations.
69. Van Apeldoorn, B. (2002) Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration, London: Routledge.
70. Van Apeldoorn, B. And Horn, L. (2007) ‘The Marketisation of Corporate Control: A Critical Political Economy Perspective’, New Political Economy, 12 (2), 211-35.
71. Van Apeldoorn, B. And Overbeek, H. (forthcoming) ‘Introduction: The Life Course of the Neoliberal Project and the Global Crisis’, in H. Overbeek and B. Van Apeldoorn (eds.) Neoliberalism in Crisis (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan).
72. Van Der Pijl, K. (1984) The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, London: Verso.
73. Van Der Pijl, K. (2006) Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq, London: Pluto Press.
74. Van Der Pijl, K., Holman, O. And Raviv, O. (2011) ‘The resurgence of German capital in Europe: EU integration and the restructuring of Atlantic networks of interlocking directorates after 1991’, Review of International Political Economy, 18 (3), 384-408.
75. Vliegenthart, A. And Overbeek, H. (2007) ‘Corporate Governance regulation in East Central Europe. The role of transnational forces’, in H. Overbeek, B. Van Apeldoorn and A, Nolke (eds.) The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation (London: Routledge), 177-97.
76. Vliegenthart, A. And Overbeek, H. (2009) ‘Corporate Tax Reform in Neoliberal Europe: central and Eastern Europe as a Template for Deepening the Neoliberal European Integration Project?’, in B. Van Apeldoorn, J. Drahokoupil and L. Horn (eds.) B. Van Apeldoorn, J. Drahokoupil and L. Horn (eds.) Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: from Lisbon to Lisbon, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 143-62.
77. Wade, R. And Sigurgeirsdottir, S. (2010) ‘Lessons from Iceland’, New Left Review, 65, September-October, 5-29.
78. Wallerstein, I. (1974) The Modern World System I. Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, New York: Academic Publishers.
79. Wallerstein, I. (1983) The Politics of the World-Economy. The States, the Movements and the Civilizations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
80. Wolf, M. (2009) ‘This crisis is a moment, but may not be a defining one’, Financial Times, May 20, 9.
81. Young, B. And Semmler, W. (2011) ‘The European Sovereign Debt Crisis. Is Germany to Blame?’, German Politics and Society, 29 (1), 1-24.