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Factors of Production and the State: Capital, Labour, Energy
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FrancescaBatzella, The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations: Fighting for Energy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 176 pp. (pb), £36.99, ISBN 978-0367-88681-3.
Alina-SandraCucu, Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019), 266 pp. (hb), £99, ISBN 978-1-78920-185-7.
RüdigerGraf, Oil and Sovereignty: Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014), 474 pp. (hb), £99.00, ISBN 978-1-78533-806-9.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2021
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Is state intervention making a comeback in economic policy? Should it make a comeback in economic policy? And, if so, what should this intervention look like? The relations between the state and the economy are a recurring theme throughout modern history, at least since the invention of the nation-state, but in Covid Europe these questions have made the news headlines for the first time in decades. This has been in addition to the strains and challenges posed to the global economy by climate change, which have increasingly put state intervention at the forefront of economic policy. In this context, it is not surprising that state intervention has been the subject of many new books. The ones under review here, all published between 2014 and 2020, add new food for thought to the topic. They raise important questions at a time when ideas around the relations between state, entrepreneurship and resources are beginning to be rediscussed, even in the most conservative economic circles.
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