The EU's Government of Industries Markets, Institutions and Politics [Paperback]

To what extent is business activity governed at a European scale? Since the advent of the recent economic crisis, the EUs choices about the euro, debt ratios and interest rates have caught the headlines and highlighted the importance of EU decision-making arenas. However, these macro-economic events actually tell us only part of the story about the extent to which business activity is now governed at a European scale.

Based upon original research on four manufactured or processed goods industries (cars, wine, pharmaceuticals and aquaculture), and driven by theory that is constructivist, institutionalist and sociological, this book sets out to analyse just what Europe governs, by whom and why. In doing so, it reveals three recurrent features of the European government of industries: its omnipresence, its incompleteness and its de-politicization. The authors show that the many gaps in the EUs mode of governing industries stem from struggles over economic doctrine as well as the continued unwillingness of many actors to accord the EU a legitimacy to act politically in the name of industrial government.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies and Political Economy as well as those studying Political Science, Economics, Sociology and Business Studies.

Acknowledgements  The contributors to this volume  Introduction: Studying the EUs Government of Industries Bernard Jullien and Andy Smith Part 1 The View from Specific Industries Chapter 1 The EUs Government of Wine: Switching Towards Completeness Xabier It?aina, Antoine Roger and Andy Smith Chapter 2 The EUs Government of the Car Industry: From Harmonization to deep incompletenessBernard Jullien, Tommaso Pardi and Sigfrido Ramirez Perez Chapter 3 The EUs Government of Aquaculture: Completeness Unwanted Caitr?&ls¯