CJEU and the Social Market Economy Goal of the EU

This paper registers some notes and interrogations concerning the express legal enshrinement of the concept of Social Market Economy. It highlights the ordoliberal origin of this concept and questions its meaning – associated with a certain loss of intensity from the clear proclamation of the principle of Competition – in terms of the economic ordination of the Internal Market and European integration. However, the question to be asked brings us back to the effective and contextualised characterisation in the current moment of European integration – the economic Constitution of the EU. Will there be, then, a change of the ideological referential in the economic constitution of the EU and, consequently, in the paths that are intended to be trailed in the future? Or, instead, is the emergence of the express enshrinement in the Treaty of the “Social MarketEconomy” not indicative of a shift of perspective (sense of direction) of the economy in the Internal Market, but only an evolution in continuance?

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Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918- 1963.

The Economic Journal ◽

10.2307/2235426 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 105 (432) ◽

pp. 1294

Author(s):

Keith Tribe ◽

A. J. Nicholls

Keyword(s):

Market Economy ◽

Social Market Economy ◽

The Social ◽

Social Market

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Civil Economy in the Social Market Economy: a Theoretical Perspective

Journal for Markets and Ethics ◽

10.2478/jome-2018-0030 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 87-98

Author(s):

Flavio Felice

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Market Economy ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

The State ◽

Social Market Economy ◽

The Social ◽

The Galaxy ◽

Civil Economy ◽

State And Market ◽

Social Market

Abstract What do we mean by “civil” and “civil society”? This paper attempts to describe a complex notion of “civil economy” in Sturzo’s theoretical perspective of the social market economy. According to this political theory, “civil” is not opposed to “market,” which is not opposed to “the political” (the state). Rather, instead of being the transmission belt between the state and market, civil is the galaxy in which we find also the market and the state (but not only), each with its own functions. This tradition – rooted in Christianity – was able to oppose both Nazi and communist totalitarianism, while many Catholics made an impossible attempt to exhume corporatism.

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