Crisi come disciplinamento. Neoliberalismo, Grande recessione e integrazione europea (2008-2012)

Roberto Ventresca, Crisis as a Disciplinary Tool. Neoliberalism, European Integration, and the Great Recession (2008-2012) This article focuses on the mutual interdependence between the management of the so-called post-2007 Great Recession in Europe and the transformations that occurred in the very shape of specific layers of contemporary economic thought. As for its ‘spatial’ perspective, this article refers to the institutional perimetry of the European Union (EU); with respect to its conceptual focus, it deals with the evolutions and transformations of the neoliberal school of thought. In doing so, this contribution will first and foremost explore whether and to what extent the EU management of the effects brought about by the 2007-2008 economic crisis went hand in hand with the spread and implementation of neoliberal economic policy prescriptions; second, this paper aims at understanding in which terms the spread of neoliberal-oriented measures contributed in turn to reshape the decision-making process of EU institutions after the outbreak of the Great Recession. Therefore, this article will examine how and to what extent the management of the post-2007 economic crisis, as far as European Union institutions and policymakers were concerned, implied the reconfiguration of the very features of the so-called neoliberal school of thought.