Privatizing Britain and Germany in Unifying Europe, 1979-1999

英国和德国私有化以统一欧洲，1979-1999

• 批准号: 504240749
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Dirk van Laak
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Historisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/504240749?language=en
• 关键词: Privatizing; Britain; Germany; Unifying; Europe

Precisely how do industries and states interact to structure markets? Close empirical attention to the form of economic policymaking known since the early 1980s as privatization offers new perspectives on the question of how governments and businesses related to one another during the last two decades of the twentieth century—and beyond. Based on newly declassified archival collections, this project seeks to force a rethink of privatization. It does so by linking regional and national processes of deindustrialization in late-twentieth century Britain and Germany to international moves to redesign economies. The period covers the aftermath of the deep recessions of the 1970s, the creation of more flexible financial markets in the 1980s, and the struggles to embed east-central European industries in an expanding European Community/Union during the 1990s. The proposed book project analyzes how ideas about reordering state enterprises circulated between Britain, Germany, the political institutions of the EC/EU, notably the European Commission, as well as the United States. Understanding how privatization unfolded in overlapping contexts—within individual countries like Britain and (West) Germany, as well as in bilateral relations and the supranational bodies of the EC/EU—requires detailed scrutiny of specific cases. Via archives-based study of market upheaval in specific regions of Europe with strong ties to international markets, the project offers an actor-based, multinational investigation of Anglo-American finance’s growing reach into (West) Germany’s political economy.

产业和国家是如何相互作用来构建市场的？对20世纪80年代初以来被称为私有化的经济决策形式的密切实证关注，为20世纪最后20年及以后政府和企业如何相互关系的问题提供了新的视角。该项目以新近解密的档案收藏为基础，试图迫使人们重新思考私有化。它通过将世纪末英国和德国的区域和国家去工业化进程与重新设计经济的国际行动联系起来来做到这一点。这一时期涵盖了20世纪70年代严重衰退的后果，20世纪80年代更灵活的金融市场的建立，以及20世纪90年代欧洲中东部工业在扩大的欧洲共同体/联盟中的嵌入。拟议中的图书项目分析了关于国有企业重组的想法如何在英国、德国、欧共体/欧盟的政治机构（特别是欧盟委员会）以及美国之间传播。要理解私有化如何在重叠的背景下展开--在英国和（西德）德国这样的国家内部，以及在双边关系和欧共体/欧盟的超国家机构中--需要对具体案例进行详细的审查。通过对欧洲特定地区市场动荡的基于档案的研究，该项目与国际市场有着密切的联系，该项目提供了一个基于行动者的，对英美金融日益深入（西）德国政治经济的跨国调查。