Moral Economies, Economic Moralities

University of California - Berkeley

U.S.A.

June 24 - 26, 2016

Previous scholarship on comparative political economy highlights that different national varieties of capitalism, and the institutions and political coalitions that underpin them, can co-exist with intensified European integration by undertaking diverse responses to common challenges. However, current events, most prominently the Euro-crisis and subsequent EU policy response to it, suggest that the EU’s different political economies are not similarly thriving under deepened European integration. This panel provides a re-think whether diverse capitalist regimes are equally capable of adjusting to European economic and monetary integration.  Panel papers examine the how the EU’s macroeconomic governance capacity conflicts with regional differences in member-state economic and labor market institutions, and question whether the European Union, and European monetary integration, can accommodate diverse growth models.