Book Review of Andreas Bieler, Vincenzo Maccarrone (eds.), 2025, Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis. Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v17i2.7211Abstract
For some time now, the European Union (EU) has been facing an interlocking set of challenges aptly described as a “polycrisis,” which has only deepened in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House. Economic stagnation, deindustrialisation, chronically high energy prices, war in Ukraine and the threat of US abandonment, ageing populations and underfunded healthcare systems, unaffordable housing, right-wing populist surges, and escalating climate breakdown are some of the key dimensions of this polycrisis. Scholarly output understandably struggles to keep pace with Europe’s rapidly unfolding predicament. Much has been written, but very little of it from a critical political economy (CPE) perspective informed by Marxism and Neo- Gramscian theory.
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