Privatizing Britain and Germany in Unifying Europe, 1979-1999

确切地说，行业和国家是如何相互作用来构建市场的？对自20世纪80年代早期以来被称为私有化的经济政策制定形式的密切实证关注，为政府和企业在20世纪最后20年乃至以后如何相互关联的问题提供了新的视角。基于新解密的档案收藏，这个项目试图迫使人们重新思考私有化。它通过将20世纪末英国和德国的地区和国家的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年代深度衰退的后果，20世纪80年代更灵活的金融市场的创建，以及20世纪90年代将中东欧工业纳入不断扩大的欧洲共同体/联盟的努力。拟议中的图书项目分析了重组国有企业的想法如何在英国、德国、欧共体/欧盟的政治机构（尤其是欧盟委员会）以及美国之间传播。了解私有化是如何在重叠的背景下展开的——在像英国和（西）德国这样的个别国家，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。通过对与国际市场有密切联系的欧洲特定地区的市场动荡进行基于档案的研究，该项目为英美金融日益深入（西）德国政治经济提供了基于行动者的跨国调查。

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.