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Europe and the Future of Economic Governance
Author(s) -
Lamy Pascal
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-9886.2004.00474.x
Subject(s) - pascal (unit) , corporate governance , citation , political science , library science , computer science , operations research , management , economics , programming language , engineering
The Journal of Common Market Studies, it seems to me, has always rather revelled, in a very British way, in having an out-of-date title. As they used to say, a well-dressed man is always at least ten years behind the latest fashion. Of course, JCMS does not need to worry about that – everyone knows who you are. But you are lucky that you are not called the ‘Journal of Coal and Steel Community Studies’, frankly speaking; or the ‘Journal of European Defence Community Studies’, although that wheel may yet come full circle. And at least you have resisted the blandishments of image-makers who might have reduced you to the poverty of ‘European Union Institutional Reflections Monthly’. In any event, I am pleased to have the opportunity to share some reflections on the future of economic governance, based on my own experience as EU Trade Commissioner and considering Europe as a possible model for emulation elsewhere, in the pages of JCMS. Some of my past writings on economic governance have provoked controversy, particularly in my own country (Lamy, 2002b; Lamy and Pisani-Ferry, 2002), but also in the English-speaking world (Lamy, 2002a). Yet, it seems uncontroversial to view economic governance as being fundamentally about