Financial Crisis, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and the Production of Knowledge about the EU

TY - JOUR

T1 - Financial Crisis, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and the Production of Knowledge about the EU

AU - Ryner, Magnus

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Although the financial/Eurozone crisis has profound effects on the EU, European integration scholarship failed to even recognise that there might be a problem. This article argues that this is due to the highly orthodox nature of European integration scholarship and the blind-spots that inhere in its instrumentalist basic code. It makes the case for a heterodox recasting of the production of knowledge about the EU, and argues that post-Keynesian, post-Marxist and neo-Weberian political economy can make significant contributions in that regard.

AB - Although the financial/Eurozone crisis has profound effects on the EU, European integration scholarship failed to even recognise that there might be a problem. This article argues that this is due to the highly orthodox nature of European integration scholarship and the blind-spots that inhere in its instrumentalist basic code. It makes the case for a heterodox recasting of the production of knowledge about the EU, and argues that post-Keynesian, post-Marxist and neo-Weberian political economy can make significant contributions in that regard.

U2 - 10.1177/0305829812442300

DO - 10.1177/0305829812442300

M3 - Article

SN - 0305-8298

VL - 40

SP - 647

EP - 673

JO - MILLENNIUM

JF - MILLENNIUM

IS - 3

M1 - N/A

ER -