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The European “Postwar Consensus” and the Birth of the EEC

In: The Liberal Heart of Europe

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  • Richard Portes

    (London Business School
    CEPR)

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Ideas are at least as important as facts, and indeed ideas often shape or even create facts. I say this not only because of the title of our conference. Partly it is my deformation professionelle as an academic, partly my current macroprudential policy role, where I do see academic thinking strongly influencing policy. But I believe you will see it too in the remarks that follow on the background to the birth of the EEC. One theme here is the intellectual background of federalism. Some say now that European federalist ideas have fallen by the wayside. But I believe that even a Europe of concentric circles would not discard federalist notions—especially with the eurozone at its center.

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  • Richard Portes, 2021. "The European “Postwar Consensus” and the Birth of the EEC," Springer Books, in: Francesco Giavazzi & Francesco Lefebvre D'Ovidio & Alberto Mingardi (ed.), The Liberal Heart of Europe, chapter 0, pages 41-45, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-60368-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60368-7_4
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