TY - BOOK ID - 84803450 TI - The pluralist character of the European economic constitution PY - 2016 SN - 178225787X 1509901086 1509901094 PB - Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Economic aspects KW - European Union KW - E.U. KW - European Union countries KW - Economic policy. KW - Constitution. KW - Economic constitution UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84803450 AB - This monograph intervenes in the long-standing and controversial debate on the socio-economic orientation of the European Union. Arguing that the European economic constitution is pluralist in the sense that it does not favour any specific socio-economic paradigm, it shows that European law allows the pursuit of very different regulatory projects by the European and the national legislators. This pluralist character of the European economic constitution stands in an uncomfortable relationship with the policies currently pursued by the European Union, which are often neoliberal in their orientation. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach: it analyses the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as interpreted and developed in the case law of the Court of Justice, its history, and its regulatory purpose in the light of conflicting socio-economic paradigms. By challenging the orthodoxy, the book makes a bold proposition that will likely resonate in both European economic law scholarship and European law in general. With the ongoing economic crisis triggering a significant interest in economic questions among legal scholars it is particularly timely and topical ER -