The Liberal Heart of Europe: Essays in Memory of Alberto Giovannini

1 Introduction 2 Some Introductory Thoughts Part I The European "Postwar Consensus" and the European Project 3 The Origins of the Idea of European Integration: A German Perspective 4 The European "Postwar Consensus" and the Birth of the EEC 5 "Large Switzerland" or "Large France"? The Ordoliberals and Early European Integration 6 Hayek's Europe: The Austrian School and European Federalism 7 The Monnet Method and the Obsolescence of the EU Part II The Evolution of the European Project in the 1980s: How Liberalisation Affected Europe 8 The Re-launching of European Integration in the 1980s, Ideas and Policies 9 Evaluating Mrs. Thatcher's Reforms: Britain's 1980s Economic Reform Program 10 The Rocky Road to European Monetary Union: A German Perspective Part III Our Current Predicament 11 The Euro in Perspective 12 Dealing with the Covid Debt Overhang 13 Globalization and Its Critics 14 The Great Recession and the Future of the EU