Birgit Mahnkopf
Biographic Data
| ID | 3492541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Mahnkopf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahnkopf |
| SIGNATURE | MAHNKOPF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berlin School of Economics and Law |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The euro crisis
This article rejects a common misdiagnosis of the euro crisis. It argues that the main problem is not a ‘sovereign debt crisis’ but a design flaw in the EU structure. In a period marked by a global crisis of capital accumulation, this flaw threatens to become a nail in the coffin of European integration due to the absence of any mechanism to stimulate real convergence between the member states and calibration of the monetary, economic, and social…
Still a Future for the European Social Model?
The 2008/9 financial and economic crisis has discredited the neoliberal narrative which claims that the market is self-correcting and that private enterprise is superior to the public sector. In Europe, it turned out that the crisis highlighted the social and the democratic (as well as the ecological) deficits which have arisen over the past 30 years and which finally had eroded some of the most distinctive features of the European Social Model (…
Privatisation of public services in the EU
In the past, universal access to essential public services served as an important mechanism for generating a good relationship between the market, social cohesion and democracy in many European countries. But, with the growing dominance of the mode of ‘negative integration’ across the continent, citizens are being reconstituted as consumers and small shareholders. Meanwhile, privatisation of public services steamrolls the results of the ‘decommod…
The world market unbound
The processes of 'disembedding' analysed by Karl Polanyi as part of the 'great transformation' are still continuing. They comprise not only market mechanisms but money and energy, space and time regimes. Especially under the pressures of globalization disembedded money, fossil energies, abstract time and space act as external constraints of the world market on social systems. Societies have to adjust structurally to the conditions set by compulso…
Ex Oriente Risk
The world market unbound
The processes of 'disembedding' analysed by Karl Polanyi as part of the 'great transformation' are still continuing. They comprise not only market mechanisms but money and energy, space and time regimes. Especially under the pressures of globalization disembedded money, fossil energies, abstract time and space act as external constraints of the world market on social systems. Societies have to adjust structurally to the conditions set by compulso…
Ex Oriente Risk
The euro crisis
This article rejects a common misdiagnosis of the euro crisis. It argues that the main problem is not a ‘sovereign debt crisis’ but a design flaw in the EU structure. In a period marked by a global crisis of capital accumulation, this flaw threatens to become a nail in the coffin of European integration due to the absence of any mechanism to stimulate real convergence between the member states and calibration of the monetary, economic, and social…
Ex Oriente Risk
The world market unbound
The processes of 'disembedding' analysed by Karl Polanyi as part of the 'great transformation' are still continuing. They comprise not only market mechanisms but money and energy, space and time regimes. Especially under the pressures of globalization disembedded money, fossil energies, abstract time and space act as external constraints of the world market on social systems. Societies have to adjust structurally to the conditions set by compulso…
Privatisation of public services in the EU
In the past, universal access to essential public services served as an important mechanism for generating a good relationship between the market, social cohesion and democracy in many European countries. But, with the growing dominance of the mode of ‘negative integration’ across the continent, citizens are being reconstituted as consumers and small shareholders. Meanwhile, privatisation of public services steamrolls the results of the ‘decommod…
Still a Future for the European Social Model?
The 2008/9 financial and economic crisis has discredited the neoliberal narrative which claims that the market is self-correcting and that private enterprise is superior to the public sector. In Europe, it turned out that the crisis highlighted the social and the democratic (as well as the ecological) deficits which have arisen over the past 30 years and which finally had eroded some of the most distinctive features of the European Social Model (…
The euro crisis
This article rejects a common misdiagnosis of the euro crisis. It argues that the main problem is not a ‘sovereign debt crisis’ but a design flaw in the EU structure. In a period marked by a global crisis of capital accumulation, this flaw threatens to become a nail in the coffin of European integration due to the absence of any mechanism to stimulate real convergence between the member states and calibration of the monetary, economic, and social…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Economic policy (3 works) · Economic system (3 works) · European union (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Civil society (2 works) · European integration (2 works)