Studia Prawa Prywatnego

nr 2/2024

Europe’s Crisis Politics and Europe’s Law

DOI: 10.32027/SPP.24.2.4
Christian Joerges
Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor Emeritus for Law and Society, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin,: Co-Director, Center for European Law and Politics, Bremen
Abstrakt

The core-thesis and critique in this essay submits that the mainstream European law scholarship has pursued from the foundational period onwards in ever new varieties, what K.Polanyi has called a “stark utopia”, namely a conceptualisation of market economies as self-sustaining autonomous systems, thereby neglecting that laissezfaire economies were planned, dependent on continuous political management and latently exposed to counter-movements defending existential social needs. K.Polanyi’s economic sociology has been dealt with benign neglect by the new American LPE movement just as previously in CLS, although there are significant affinities between these schools of thought. Polanyi’s economic sociology is, however, particularly sensitive to social embeddedness of market economies and hence to the importance of their diversities. The project of “democracy enhancing conflicts-law constitutionalism” sketched out in the concluding section seeks to reconcile the respect of diversity with the integration agenda and thereby defend the “united in diversity” motto of the Draft Constitutional Treaty of 2014.

Słowa kluczowe
prawo i ekonomia polityczna, rynek, konstytucjonalizm, demokracja, prawo kolizyjne
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