The Economic Idea of a European Union: An Intellectual History

欧盟的经济理念：思想史

• 批准号: 2260373
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2260373
• 关键词: Economic; Idea; European; Union; Intellectual

The first question I would like to address with my research is how and why economic thought on European confederation has evolved over time? With each text, there is a lot to unpack. The thinker's personal and professional background, the historical social, economic, political and intellectual context of publication, and the interaction and linkages between these texts themselves are important. Hayek's ideas in The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism and Denationalisation of Money, for example, may be seen in part as a reaction to Saint-Simon's earlier contributions, given that the Saint-Simonian cult of organisation for a common and defined end has been deemed the ultimate target of Hayek's thought (Jones, 2002).There is also the question of how far these ideas determined the eventual economic set-up of the Union, which implies a closer focus on the post-war period. Influencing the economic set-up of "new Europe" was an important aim of the Mont Pèlerin conference in 1947, which brought together a group of intellectuals, handpicked by Hayek, to establish an international organisation for the development and spread of neoliberal ideas (Innset, 2017). The conference even included a discussion on the possibility of European federation based on Hayek's 1939 essay. And indeed, a number of scholars have argued that the economic set-up of the European Union is Hayekian (Issing, 2000; Majone, 2011; Bellamy and Weale, 2015) or neoliberal (Streeck, 2011; Biebricher, 2015; Stiglitz, 2016).Understanding the evolution of economic ideas on European unity is important not only as an academic exercise, but also for acknowledging that our Union could have taken many economic shapes. Turning to ideas from history may help us to think about how the Union could be improved in the future.

我想通过我的研究解决的第一个问题是，关于欧洲联盟的经济思想是如何以及为什么随着时间的推移而演变的？对于每一条文本，都有很多需要拆解的内容。思想家的个人和专业背景、出版的历史、社会、经济、政治和知识背景，以及这些文本本身之间的互动和联系是重要的。例如，哈耶克在《州际联邦制和货币非国有化的经济条件》一书中的思想，可能在一定程度上被视为对圣西蒙早期贡献的反应，因为圣西蒙尼对共同和明确目标的组织崇拜一直被认为是哈耶克思想的最终目标(琼斯，2002)。还有一个问题是，这些思想在多大程度上决定了联邦的最终经济结构，这意味着更密切地关注战后时期。影响“新欧洲”的经济结构是1947年贝勒林山会议的一个重要目标，会议聚集了哈耶克精心挑选的一群知识分子，建立了一个发展和传播新自由主义思想的国际组织(Innset，2017)。会议甚至还讨论了以哈耶克1939年的文章为基础的欧洲联盟的可能性。事实上，许多学者认为，欧盟的经济结构是哈耶克式(Issing，2000；Majone，2011；Bellamy and Weale，2015)或新自由主义(Streeck，2011；Biebricher，2015；Stiglitz，2016)。理解关于欧洲统一的经济理念的演变，不仅是作为一种学术实践，而且对于承认我们的欧盟本来可以采取多种经济形式来说，也是重要的。回顾历史，或许可以帮助我们思考未来如何改进联盟。