Mark Baimbridge is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bradford, UK.Philip B. Whyman is Professor of Economics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.Andrew Mullen is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Northumbria University, UK.

• 1. The European Social Model Part I: From Liberal to neo-liberal Europe 2. Liberal Europe during the Cold War Order (1947-1982): From the European Recovery Program to the Socialist Challenge 3. The Political Economy of Western Europe’s Social Models in the Cold War Order: Inevitable and Convergent Welfare States? 4. Neo-liberal Europe in the New World Order (1985-2007): From the Single Market to the European Constitution 5. The Political Economy of Western Europe’s Social Models in the New World Order: Retrenching Welfare States and the Emergence of Social Europe? Part II: Alternative Social Models to neo-liberal Europe 6. Progressive Social Forces and the Transformation of the World Order: Radical National Alternatives 7. Progressive Social Forces and the Transformation of the World Order: Euro-Keynesian and Radical European Alternatives Part III: The neoliberalisation of EU policy 8. Operation of economic policy 9. Fiscal Federalism: A Missed Opportunity or an Emerging Consensus? 10. European Social Policy: Constructing a European Social Model and Defending the European Model of Society? 11. Social Partnership and Labour Market Flexibility Part IV: What future for a social Europe? 12. Neoliberalisation and enlargement: incompatible goals? 13. Social Europe and Enlargement: Threat or Opportunity? 14. National economic policy alternatives 15. From Rescue and Stimulus to the Age of Austerity: the European Response to the Great Recession and the Prospects for Social Europe

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