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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2024

Marija Bartl
Marija Bartl
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University of Amsterdam
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Reimagining Prosperity
Toward a New Imaginary of Law and Political Economy in the EU
 , pp. ix - xii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Contents

  1. Series Editors’ Preface

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. 1Introduction

    1. 1.1On Prosperity

    2. 1.2On the Role of the EU

      1. 1.2.1Where Are We Now?

    3. 1.3Conceptual Framework

    4. 1.4Structure and Choices

  4. 2Imaginaries of Prosperity

    1. 2.1Introduction

    2. 2.2Social Imaginaries

      1. 2.2.1Defining Social Imaginaries

      2. 2.2.2How Social ‘Imaginaries’ Change

      3. 2.2.3On the Problem of ‘Institution’: What It Takes to Change a Social Imaginary

        1. 2.2.3.1The Trouble with Instituting Economy

        2. 2.2.3.2On the Translation Role of Democratic Institutions

        3. 2.2.3.3Between Ideas and Interests

        4. 2.2.3.4On the Role of Law

    3. 2.3Prosperity

      1. 2.3.1On the Meaning of Prosperity (Today): More about Happiness than Consumerism

      2. 2.3.2Of Prosperity and Democracy

      3. 2.3.3Of Prosperity and Technocracy

      4. 2.3.4Of Prosperity and Europe

      5. 2.3.5The Prosperity’s Other: Looming Tribalism

        1. 2.3.5.1Dialectics of Prosperity: Between Privatised and Shared Prosperity

        2. 2.3.5.2The ‘Other’ Collective Imaginary: The Rise of Tribalism

    4. 2.4Sustainable and Shared

      1. 2.4.1On the Constitutive Outsides: Renewing Imaginaries of Prosperity

      2. 2.4.2In the Search of Future: Credible Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century

      3. 2.4.3Can the EU Make a Difference?

  5. 3Reimagining Consumption

    1. 3.1Introduction

    2. 3.2Consumption as a Matter of Contract Law

    3. 3.3A Hurried Decline of the Imaginary of Shared Prosperity (1975–1985+)

      1. 3.3.11975: Consumer Protection as a Collective Project

      2. 3.3.21981: First Cracks

    4. 3.4Towards the Imaginary of Privatised Prosperity (1985–1995)

      1. 3.4.11985: ‘New Impetus’ for Consumer Policy

      2. 3.4.21990: Breaking the Link between Consumer Rights and Policy Objectives

      3. 3.4.31995: Privatising for Good Causes: Public Services and Sustainability

    5. 3.5The Transient Hegemony of the Privatised Prosperity (1998–2012+)

      1. 3.5.11998: The Birth of Common Interest and the Death of Politics

      2. 3.5.22001: Competitive Consumer Law

      3. 3.5.32012: Out of the Crisis with Better Information

    6. 3.6Towards an Imaginary of Shared Prosperity after 2018?

      1. 3.6.12018: First Cracks: What Is the Deal in the ‘New Deal for Consumers’

      2. 3.6.22020: A New Consumer Agenda: A Next Step?

    7. 3.7The Contours of the New Imaginary of Prosperity

  6. 4Designing Technology

    1. 4.1Introduction

    2. 4.2Embedding the Product

      1. 4.2.1Ecodesign Framework

      2. 4.2.2Embedding the Product in Time (Life-Cycle) and Society (Circular Economy)

    3. 4.3Steering Growth

    4. 4.4Beyond Win-Win

      1. 4.4.1Distributive Trade-Offs 1: Consumers

      2. 4.4.2Distributive Trade-Offs 2: Businesses

      3. 4.4.3Distributive Trade-Offs 3: Workers

    5. 4.5Shoring up Publicness

    6. 4.6Hardening Law

      1. 4.6.1Rise and Fall of Self-Regulation

      2. 4.6.2Toward a More Mandatory Law

    7. 4.7The Contours of the New Imaginary of Prosperity

  7. 5Reinventing Industrial Policy

    1. 5.1Introduction

    2. 5.2Greening Growth

      1. 5.2.1EU Industrial Strategy

      2. 5.2.2Making Europe ‘Competitive’ via Green Growth

    3. 5.3Law as Burden

    4. 5.4Resourceful Government

    5. 5.5The Contours of the New Imaginary of Prosperity: or Im Westen nichts Neues?

  8. 6Transforming the Corporation

    1. 6.1Introduction

      1. 6.1.1‘Corporate Governance File’

    2. 6.2New Problems, New Solutions

      1. 6.2.1Wait a Bit – What Problems?

      2. 6.2.2Wait a Bit – What Solutions?

        1. 6.2.2.1How Capable Are Directors?

        2. 6.2.2.2The Conflicting Imaginaries of Prosperity

    3. 6.3Paradigm Shift in Knowledge and Expertise

    4. 6.4The Contours of New Imaginary of Prosperity

    5. 6.5Going Beyond: Pluralising Economy, Transforming Imaginaries

      1. 6.5.1Mainstreaming Non-extractive Organisations

      2. 6.5.2Transforming Imaginaries

  9. 7Conclusion: Towards a New Imaginary of Prosperity in the EU

    1. 7.1Changing Background Assumptions

    2. 7.2The Road Ahead

  10. Select Bibliography

  11. Index

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