Policy Brief Series Future Social Market Economy
Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.)
Cortnie Shupe
Policy Brief #2013/03: <br/>A European Social Market Economy? - Index Results
- Format Type
- Date of publication
- 10/04/2013
- Edition
- 1. edition
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PDF
Price
Free of charge
Description
The ‘highly competitive social market economy’ represents the targeted common economic order of the European Union as it is stated as a goal in the Lisbon Treaty. Yet, this endeavor requires a mutual understanding of which institutions constitute a modern social market economy. The results of the Index of Modern Social Market Economies (IMSME) show congruence around a liberal market economy, but great diversity in principles indispensible for a social market economy.