When Germany Accepted a European Industrial Policy: Managing the Decline of Steel from 1977 to 1984
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Laurent Warlouzet
Laurent Warlouzet is professor of history at the University of Littoral-Côte d’Opale (Ulco, France). He held postdoctoral fellowships at the European University Institute (EUI, 2009-10) and at the London School of Economics (LSE, 2012-14). Last book: L. Warlouzet, The Centralization of EU Competition Policy. Historical Institutionalist Dynamics from Cartel Monitoring to Merger Control (1956-91), in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 54, 3, 2016, pp. 725-741. Last book: Laurent Warlouzet, Governing Europe in a Globalizing World. Neoliberalism and its alternatives following the 1973 Oil crisis, London 2017. Full CV on academia.edu.
Abstract
From 1977 to 1984, an ambitious European industrial policy was implemented by the European Economic Community for the first and only time in its history. It dealt with the crisis of the steel sector. This paper strives to understand why member states chose this solution, despite the fact that some of them were hostile to the devolution of power to supranational institutions, as for example Britain or France. The most reluctant state was Germany, whose officials usually associated any attempts of EEC-wide industrial policy with dirigism. The paper, based on archives of three governments (Germany, France, the United Kingdom) and of the European Commission, argues that the European solution was best for member states, and in particular for Germany, in order to control their neighbours and avoid a costly subsidy race.
About the author
Laurent Warlouzet is professor of history at the University of Littoral-Côte d’Opale (Ulco, France). He held postdoctoral fellowships at the European University Institute (EUI, 2009-10) and at the London School of Economics (LSE, 2012-14). Last book: L. Warlouzet, The Centralization of EU Competition Policy. Historical Institutionalist Dynamics from Cartel Monitoring to Merger Control (1956-91), in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 54, 3, 2016, pp. 725-741. Last book: Laurent Warlouzet, Governing Europe in a Globalizing World. Neoliberalism and its alternatives following the 1973 Oil crisis, London 2017. Full CV on academia.edu.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- In eigener Sache. 25 Jahre Jahrbuch unter neuer Leitung
- Abhandlungen
- Industrial Policy in Western Europe since the 1960s: Historical Varieties and Perspectives
- Abhandlungen
- Industrial Policy in Britain since 1970: Changing Values, Assumptions and Mechanisms
- Abhandlungen
- Sectoral Subsidies in West German Industrial Policy: Programmatic Objectives and Pragmatic Applications from the 1960s to the 1980s
- Abhandlungen
- Structural Policies, regional Development and industrial Specialization in Italy, 1952-2002
- Abhandlungen
- West German Borderland Aid and European State Aid Control
- Abhandlungen
- When Germany Accepted a European Industrial Policy: Managing the Decline of Steel from 1977 to 1984
- Abhandlungen
- A European Structural Crisis Cartel as Solution to a Sectoral Depression?
- Forschungs- und Literaturbericht
- Angst, Anpassung oder Anregung?
- Forschungs- und Literaturbericht
- Ein glücksökonomisch modifizierter Human Development Index für Deutschland (1920-1960)
- Forschungs- und Literaturbericht
- „Ära Voss“
