Index
Aarhus Convention, 103
access to finance, 147
Acemoglu, Daron, 211
Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials, 150
Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Right, 127
AI, 113
allocative efficiency, 33
Amazon
destruction of unsold goods, 136
artificial intelligence, 122
austerity, 2
Austria
European Core, 57
authoritarian modes of government, 64
Batteries Act, 142
Batteries Regulation
due dilegence obligations, 149
Bcorps, 128
Better Regulation agenda, 156
Better Regulation package, 158
Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights, 176
Blair, Tony, 37
blockchain, 122
Breton, Thierry, 180
Brexit, 34
Bundgaard, Anja Marie, 133
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, 164
Castoriadis, Cornelius, 23
CE conformity marking, 129
Chips Act, 142, 146, 149, 160
Chips Joint Undertaking, 149
European Chips Infrastructure Consortium, 149
circular economy principles, 43
clean technology, 139
Codex Alimentaris, 96
co-habitation, 110
collective rights, 83
collective self-determination, 35
company law, 172
competition law, 172
competitiveness
industrial, 155
Competitiveness Council, the, 182
competitiveness,
compossible futures, 43
compossible technological futures, 114
Conference on Europe, 170
consumer
agenda, 100
contracts, 79
interests, 79
movement, 85
policy
internal market, the, 87
policy objectives, 91
purchasing, 90
welfare, 124
consumer agenda 1998, 93
Consumer Agenda 2020, 91
consumer law, 37
Consumer Rights Directive, 99
consumers, 40
corporate governance framework, 177
corporate social responsibility initiatives, 100
corporate sustainability due diligence, 181
Court of Justice of the European Union, 73
Critical Minerals Act, 142
Critical Raw Material Strategy, 146
cross-border transactions, 90
democracy, 51
Democracy, 35
democratic and expert institutions, 9
democratic and/or participatory governance, 199
democratic institutions,
Denmark
industry, 179
de-risking, 210
destruction of unsold goods, 124
DG Energy and Enterprise, 117
DG FISMA, 177
DG Internal Market, 180
DG Justice, 177
digital economy, 122
Digital Markets Act
gate keepers, 102
Directive on Collective Redress, 103
distance selling, 73
distributive conflicts, 123
East, the
socialisms, 32
EBRD, the, 148
ECGI group of corporate governance scholars,
ecodesign, 43, 112
2005 ecodesign framework directive, 116
2009 directive, 116
2016 Ecodesign Working Plan, 121
2022 revision of ecodesign framework with the New Proposal, 130
conformity assessment bodies, 131
eco-vouchers and green taxation, 131
green public procurement, 131
notified bodies, 130
surveillance and cooperation obligations on online platforms, 130
Ecodesign Forum, 130
ecodesign framework 2022, 119
Ecodesign Working Plan, 117
hard law, 132
implementing measure
impact assessment, 129
standards, 133
e-commerce, 124
economic exploitation, 108
Economist, the, 153
Emissions Trading Scheme, 163
England, 30
Enlightenment ideology, 61
environmental dangers, 108
environmental degradation, 66
environmental regulation, 156
Espositol, Roberto
Institution
instituting praxis, 28
European Banking Authority, 178
European Chips Infrastructure Consortium, 160
European Commission
‘green paper’ on consumer policy,
Communication on Shaping Europe’s digital future, 105
inception impact assessment, 179
Proposal for a Sustainable Products Regulation, 114
European Core, 57
European Court of Justice, 44
European Green Paper on Integrated Product Policies, 116
European Parliament, 8
European Peripheries, 57
European Roundtable of Industrialists and Business Europe, 152
European Roundtable of Industrialists, 58
European Social Entrepreneurship Funds, 168
European Structural and Investment Funds, 144
The European Union (EU), 1, 8, 69
austerity, 70
common agricultural policy, 43
constitutional construction, 70
consumer policy, 36
industrial law and policy, 142
technocratic bureaucracy, 70
European Venture Capital Funds, 168
financial law, 172
financialisation, 66
foreign direct investment, 58
France
trade unions, 79
Freedman, Milton, 172
freedom of contract, 42
Gabor, Daniela, 210
Geertz, Clifford, 26
General Exception and the Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, 142
General State Aid exception, 147
Global Gateway, 168
global interdependence, 69
globalization, 112
Green Claims Directive, 106
green finance, 177
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 31
Haldane, Andrew, 54
hegemonies in democratic societies, temporary, 53
Horizon Europe, 147
housing, 48
Hungary, 33
Ideology,
productive imagination, 26
imaginaries
collective, 42
collectivist, 62
conservative, 3
of consumption, corporation, technological governance, 59
of consumption, 101
industrial, 156
of law, 83
nativist and conservative, 3
of privatised prosperity, 13
of shared prosperity, 13
Impact Assessment Board, 157
Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI), 148
individual rights, 83
industrial food production, 112
industrial policy
circular economy model, 145
green, 164
laissez-faire, 140
NET ZERO, 141
of the new growth strategy, 154
to support social economy, 200
vertical, 140
welfare state, 140
Industrial Policy 2010, 142
industrialisation, 77
inequality, 1
Injunction Directive, 103
intellectual property rights, 42
InvestEU, 148
Macron, Emmanuel, 139
market regulation, 71
market surveillance, 128
Marx, Karl, 25
media, non-partisan, 64
The Middle Ages, 28
Miethausersyndikat
cooperative housing, 199
migration, 68
millennials, 47
Minimum Corporate Tax directive, 162
modernity, 23
Moore, Jason W., 151
mortgage contracts, 42
multinational corporations (MNCs), 175
neoliberal imaginary of privatised prosperity, 76
neoliberal imaginary of prosperity and corporation, 192
neoliberal imaginary of prosperity, 196
neoliberalism, 1, 20, 33
deregulation, 33
financialization, 33
flexibilization, 33
liberalisation, 33
privatisation, 33
privatised prosperity, 33
Netherlands, the
housing crisis, 70
Netherlands, the, 80
New Consumer Agenda,
New Deal for Consumers,
New Impetus to Consumer Policy, 86
Ngai-Ling, Sum
economic imaginaries, 24
Niglia, Leone, 44
non-financial reporting directive,
Nordic countries
European Core, 57
Nordic Member States
Denmark
business associations, 187
Nordic professors,
nuclear families, 67
nuclear family dwellings, 72
Patterson, Dennis, 34
pharmaceutical industry, 42
Polanyi, Karl, 29
precautionary principle, 157
Přibáň, Jiří
European Consitutional Imaginaries, 55
Priorities for Consumer Policy 1996–1998, 91
private rule-making processes
CEN, CENELEC, 93
Prodi Commission, 157
product as service, 138
product liability directive, 90
Profit, 197
Proposal for a Net Zero Industrial Act, 146
Prosperity, 6
protection of health and safety, 83
public procurement, 201
Recovery and Resilience plans, 163
regenerative growth, 121
regressive fiscal pact, 18
‘Right to Repair’ Directive, 106
Robinson, James A., 211
Rodrik, Dani, 150
rule of law, 9
Schroder, Gerhard, 37
self-regulation agreements, 96
self-regulation, 132
services of general economic interest (SGEI), 77
shareholder primacy, , 186
sharing economy, 106
Smart Specialisations, 144
social and environmental extraction, 7
Social Economy Bank, 202
social enterprises, 128
social imaginaries of “prosperity”, 13
social intrapreneurship, 202
social market economy, 56
social media, 113
social purpose, 199
socially integrative function, 20
societal disintegration, 15
Stability and Growth Pact, 12
‘stakeholder’ perspectives, 197
strategic autonomy, 139
strategic partnerships, 147
Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform, 148
Sum, Ngai-Ling, 24
surveillance, 109
sustainable economy, 114
Sustainable Products Regulation Proposal,
product passports, 135
Sustainable Products, 105
sustainable value creation, 203
taxation, 161
technocratic institutions, 54
technology, 112
Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework, 147
Timmermans, Frans, 153
tribal
collectivism, 206
tribal imaginaries, 5
tribal societies
output legitimacy, 64
tribal violence
Yugoslavia, 62
Trump, Donald, 34
twin green and digital transitions, 145
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 105
UN Principles, 175
unfair terms directive, 44
unfair terms protection, 88
unfair terms, 86
unfair trading practices, 86
United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 105
United Nations’ sustainable development goals, 154
USA, the, 33, 44
Kennedy’s Consumer Bill of Rights, 80
OIRA (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs), 179
USA, 15
von der Leyen, Ursula, 148
Warren, Elisabeth
Accountable Capitalism Act, 202
weather events, 69
Weimar, 1
West, the
welfare states, 32
White Paper on Governance, 97
Wilders, Geert, 64
Wolf, Martin
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, 45
World Bank’s Doing Business Index, 152
WTO, 149
WWII imaginary of corporation, 192
WWII imaginary of shared prosperity, 196
Yugoslavia, 33
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