Austerity and Law in Europe presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays that challenge traditional narratives of austerity. The contributions recast austerity as a historically contingent political rationality that operates through law and technocracy. A collection of essays that tackles the relationship between austerity and law within and outside the European Union Draws on a set of interdisciplinary contributions, incorporating insights from European law, economic history, legal theory, and economics Reveals how austerity measures in Europe were not implemented as an outcome of legal or economic necessity, but were a political choice Presents austerity as a historically contingent political rationality which gained a legal endorsement in the EU law and policy without foreclosing the possibilities for contestation either through law or politics
| ISBN: | 9781119380016 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 2017 |
| Author: | Marija Bartl, Markos Karavias |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Journal of Law and Society Special Issues |
| Genres: |
Public international law: international organizations and institutions Law and society, sociology of law Constitutional and administrative law: general Sociology |