Unwitting architect : German primacy and the origins of neoliberalism /
German primacy and the origins of neoliberalism
Julian Germann.
- 1 online resource (x, 286 pages).
- Emerging frontiers in the global economy .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The origins of neoliberalism and the role of the German state -- Foreign economic policy and advanced unevenness -- Embedding liberalism : the German social model and its international supports -- Unwinding Bretton Woods : the deutsche mark float and the renewal of stability politics -- Defeating alternatives : German grand strategy and the European left -- Disciplining the hegemon : German monetary power and the Volcker shock -- Deflecting neoliberalism : power and purpose in Germany's eurocrisis management.
"This book asks how Germany-a country long thought to be irrevocably European and committed to a more social market economy-could have emerged at the center of neoliberal restructuring in Europe"--