Universalizing the social market economy c.1978: stepping away from institutions and towards discourse.
While the social market economy has been claimed as a universal value at the European level, it originates from a particular West German discourse of Christian democratic politics and economics. This article explores a key moment in this move from the particular to the claimed universal, the adoptio...
| Publicado en: | European Review of History Vol. 32; no. 4/5; pp. 506 - 525 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug-Oct2025
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