Index

Abdela, Rawi, 21, 21n17, 141

absolute power, of electoral

majority, 32

abstract labour, 68

accumulation

crisis of, 58

logic of, 131

accumulation drive, 71–2

acquis communautaire, 88

advanced liberalism, 2

Agamben, Giorgio, xxvii

alternative imaginary, 65

‘America First’ slogan, xvi–xvii

anti-democratism

about, 29–30

demarchy, 36–9

ordo-liberal idea of economic constitution, 39–47

‘popular sovereignty’, 31–3

pre-eminence of private law over government and state, 33–6

appropriation of nature, 61–4

archè, 38

Arendt, Hannah, 162

Aristophanes, 10

Aristotle, 13n10, 111–2, 169–70

austerity policies, 112–3

banks, osmosis of, 139–43

Barnier, Michel, 142

Barre, Raymond, 147

Becker, Gary, 68n27

becoming-global of capital, 60

Bercy, 140

Billeter, Jean-François, 60n15

biodiversity compensation, 63

Böhm, Franz, 45

Boone, Laurence, 147n43

Brecht, Bertolt, 103

Brown, Wendy, xix, 13n10, 27, 59

Brussels bureaucracy, 88

budget, as a disciplinary tool, 91–5

Bundesbank model, 42, 93

business competitiveness, 135–6

cahiers de doléances (list of grievances), 156

capital

becoming-global of, 60

labour broken down into income and, 69–70

logic of, xii

welfare of, 115

Capital (Marx), 71n30

Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty), 57–8

centrality, strategy of, 160–1

Charlemagne, 77–8

Chomsky, Noam, 145

Churchill, Winston, 20

citizenship, entrepreneurship as a form of, 66

Ciudadanos, 160–1

Civil War government, xxi–xxiii

classical liberalism, 78–9

cognitive division of labour, 51

Colau, Ada, 161

collective enrichment, 78–9

common good, 117

competition

between capitals, 25–6

disciplinary system of, 50–4

between financial actors, 113n28

forms of, 51

policies of, 18

rules of, 82

competitiveness, struggle for, 94

Competitiveness Act, 62

comprehensive normative framework, xxix, 26–7

conditionality, of the loan, 116

Condorcet, Marquis de, 158

confidence, restoration of, 114

conspicuous abuse, 162

Constitution of liberty, 36

constitutional court, 36–7

constitutional preference, 44

Constitutional Treaty (2005), 97

consumer choice, principle of, 52n5

consumer sovereignty, 44–5

consumers, producers compared with, 44

consumption, democracy of, 45

corporate power, age of, 134–8

counter-power, 145

courageous policies, 19

creditors, sovereign power of, 111–5

criminal law, 34–6

Crimp, Martin, 73–4

crisis

of accumulation, 58

of the euro, 94

governing by, 9–27

of governmentality, 58

of liberal democracy, xvii–xix

as a method of government, 17–23

as a mode of government, xii–xiv

self-aggravation of, 17

as a weapon of war, 23–7

Crouch, Colin, 52

The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism, 15

currency, as a disciplinary tool, 91–5

de Galhau, François Villeroy, 147

debt

about, 99

as a government tool, 100–3

new conception of sovereignty, 103–7

political war, 109–11

societies enslaved to, 115–21

sovereign power of creditors, 111–5

debtocracy, 111–5

Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), 2

de-democratization, 27

Delors Report, 93

demarchy, 36–9

democracy

acceleration in the exit from, 1

Aristotle on, 13n10

of consumption, 45

crisis of liberal, xvii–xix

demarchy compared with, 37–8

entrepreneurial, 67–8

as experimenting with the Commons, 149–70

liberal-social, xix

mass, 31

oligarchy against, 10–4

recourse to the law against, xxvi–xxix

representative, 33, 38

social, 25, 31, 150, 151

threatening of, 11

totalitarian, 33

war on, 104

democratic bloc, strategy of the, 159–70

democratic coalitions, 169

demokratia, 13–14

Dijsselbloem, Jeroen, 107n15, 118

direct government, 106

disciplining, 23

division of labour, 51

doxa, 130, 140

Draghi, Mario, 90n26, 95n32, 138

Drexl, Josef, 82

dumping, 22, 134

economic constitution, 39–47

economic expertise, 143–6

economic growth, growing inequalities and, 18

economy, financialization of the, 11

ecosystemic services, 63–4

Ekasteria, 12–13

Ekklesia, 12–13

El Khomri ‘labour law’, 3–4n4

electoral majority, absolute power of, 32

empire of law, 87

The End of Laissez-Faire (Keynes), 14–15

entrepreneurial democracy, 67–8

entrepreneurial imaginary, 64–5

entrepreneurial power, 134–5

entrepreneurship, as a form of citizenship, 66

environmental dumping, 134

EPP (European People’s Party), 96–7

Erdoğan, Recep, xxiv, 4

Eucken, Walter, 39–40, 81, 93

Eurocracy, 88

Eurogroup, 103–4, 107n15, 109, 110–1

European Central Bank, 93–5, 95n32

European Community, 76, 82, 85

European Constitutional Treaty, 145

European governance, 89–90

European market, 78

European People’s Party (EPP), 96–7

European Project, 76–80

European Social Charter, 118

European Union

about, 75–6

construction of the mega market, 81–6

European Project, 76–80

expertocratic governance of the, 86–91

socialness of, 95–8

Europeanism, 168n32

eurozone, 104, 121

executive power, 42

expertocracy, experience of the Commons against, 155–8

Extreme Right, 151

fascism

about, xiv–xvii

neoliberal, xvi

Fassin, Éric, 159

Federal Constitutional Court, 42–3

Fernández-Savater, Amador, 163–4

financial capitalism (M-M'), 70

financial crisis of 2008, 15–16, 144

financialization

of the economy, 11

neoliberal, 71

fiscal dumping, 22, 134

Foucault, Michel, xiv, 38–9, 55–6, 59n13, 81

The Birth of Biopolitics, 78

founding fathers, 76, 84

framework policy, 81

Franco-German alliance, 84

Franks, 77–8

full-fledged neoliberal actor, 155

full-fledged political actors, 134–5

fundamental law, 43

fundamentally oligarchic institutions, 162

Galbraith, James, 14n11

Giraud, Gaël, 101

Giroux, Henry, xvi

global financial system, 16–17

globalization

of markets, 50–1

ultra-liberal, 153

globalization game, 135

golden rule, 93, 105

governance, European, 89–90

government

Civil War, xxi–xxiii

crisis as a method of, 17–23

crisis as a mode of, xii–xiv

direct, 106

pre-eminence of private law over, 33–6

through crisis, xii–xiv

government debt, 21

governmental assembly, 36–7

governmentality, crisis of, 58

great regression, 150

Greece, 99–121

Harcourt, Bernard E., xxii, xxvii

Hardt, Michael, 159

Hayek, Friedrich, xv, xxvii, 31–3, 34–5, 36, 37, 38–9, 45, 83n13

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 10

Hollande, François, 146–7, 150n3

Host, Michel, 9n1

human capital, 68, 69–70, 72–3, 116

Iglesias, Pablo, 161n22

In the Republic of Happiness (play), 73–4

income, labour broken down into capital and, 69–70

individual liberties, 154

inequalities

between European citizens, 88n21

growing, 18

rise of, 16

innovation, as a form of competition, 51

institutional application, 59–60

inter alia, 22–3

internal devaluation, 117

iron system, 121

Islam, neoliberalism and, 4

Jospin, Lionel, 124n2

judicial dumping, 22

Juncker, Jean-Claude, 104

jury theorem, 158

Kant, Immanuel, 78, 143

Keynes, John Maynard, 14–15, 123

Keynesian pact, 112–3

Klein, Naomi, 24

kratos, 11–12, 38

Krugman, Paul, 58n11, 100, 112–3, 144

Kuttner, Robert, xvii

labour

abstract, 68

activity of, 68–9

broken down into capital and income, 69–70

labour-power, 69–70

Laclau, Ernesto, 160

Lagarde, Christine, 67

law

empire of, 87

of the infinite, 60n15

rules of, 34, 35

laws of capital, neoliberal system and, 55–60

laws of nature, 39n17

Le Barzic, Marie-Vorgan, 66

Lebaron, Frédéric, 92

Left, 25, 96–7, 129, 146–8, 150–5, 159, 160–1

legislative assembly, 36–7

legislative power, 33

liberalism

classical, 78–9

compared with neoliberalism, 2–3

free trade and markets promoted under, 2n1

liberal-social democracy, xix, xxii

liberty, security and, 2n1

limitlessness, as a regime of subjectivity, 64–74

Lindbergh, Charles, xvii

Lippmann, Walter, 32

Lippmann Colloquium, 33

Lisbon Treaty, 88

loans for reforms, 108

Locke, John, 32–3

logic of accumulation, 131

logic of capital, xii

Maastricht Treaty, 92, 94n31, 167

Macron, Emmanuel, xv, xxiii–xxvi, xxviii, 147, 147n43

Mamou, Yves, 139–40

managerial Bonapartism, xxvi

Mansholt Plan, 81

Marine Le Pen, xxiv

market confidence, 113

market globalization, 50–1

market-makers, 86

Marx, Karl, 22, 24–5, 51n3, 68, 71–2, 130–1

Capital, 71n30

mass democracy, 31

mega market, construction of the, 81–6

Mélenchon, Jean-Luc, 39n17

Merkel, Angela, xxiv, 105

mixed mechanism of governance, 87

M-M' (financial capitalism), 70

monetary arbitrariness, 41

Monnet, Jan, 84

Montesquieu, 2–3, 35

Monti, François, 90n26

Morin, François, 137–8

Moscovici, Pierre, 142

Müller-Armack, Alfred, 45

National Front, 127–8, 128n6

National Revolution, 84

nationalist rage, 6

national-popular, 155n10

nature

appropriation of, 61–4

laws of, 39n17

Negri, Antonio, 159

neofascism, victory of, 5

neoliberal domination, 127–30

neoliberal fascism, xvi

neoliberal financialization, 71

neoliberal governance, 14

neoliberal oligarchic bloc

about, 123–4

age of corporate power, 134–8

agents of radicalization, 124–7

economic expertise, 143–6

mediatic shaping of reality, 143–6

neoliberal domination, 127–30

oligarchic bloc, 146–8

osmosis of banks and senior civil servants, 139–43

professional politics, 127–30

right-wing Left, 146–8

systemic corruption, 130–4

neoliberal system, laws of capital and, 55–60

neoliberalism

free trade and markets promoted under, 2n1

Islam and, 4

liberalism compared with, 2–3

of Macron, xxiii–xxvi

metamorphosis of, xiii

new, xx–xxi

radicalization of, 14–17

systemic character of, 4–5

neoliberalization, of societies, 6–7

new aristocracy, 124, 124n2

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 6

nomocracy, 37

NUMA, 66

Obama, Barack, 61

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), 116–7

oligarchic bloc, 146–8

oligarchies, 10–14, 125, 130–1

one-party system, 5

one-political-rationality system, 5

Orbán, Viktor, xxiv

ordering policy, 39

Ordnungspolitik, 39

ordo-liberal idea, of economic constitution, 39–47

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 116–7

originating accord, 158

Papadermos, Lucas, 104–5

Papandreou, George, 104–5

party, 12n6

Party of European Socialists (PES), 96–7

path dependence, 53

Paxton, Robert, xvi

Pébereau, Michel, 140–1

pensée unique, 147

PES (Party of European Socialists), 96–7

Peyrefitte, Alain, 2

PIIGS, 102

Piketty, Thomas

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, 57–8

Pinçon, Michel, 128n7

Pinçon-Charlot, Monique, 128n7

pleasure drive, 71–2

Plutus, 9–10

Podemos, 127–8, 160, 161, 163, 164

polis, 12

politeia, 158

political role, of mainstream economic expertise, 143

political war, 109–11

politico-institutional system, 29

politics, professional, 127–30

pooling of experience, 158

popular sovereignty, xx, 31–3, 154

populist style, xxiv–xxv

power, components of, 125–6

price, as a form of competition, 51

principle of the commons, 157

private law

constitutionalization of, 36–9

pre-eminence over government and state of, 33–6

producers, consumers compared with, 44

professional politics, 127–30

property law, 36

public cover, 143

public slaves (demosioi), 157

quantitative easing, 17n14

rabies nationalis, 6

radicalization

agents of, 124–7

of neoliberalism, 14–17

Ranciére, Jacques, 154–5

ratings agencies, 20–1

reactions, 152

Reaganites’ governmental doctrine, 14n11

reality, mediatic shaping of, 143–6

Rechsstaat, xxvii, xxviii, 6, 6n6, 35, 82, 154

regalian rights, 41

regulatory dumping, 22

Réponses à la violence (Peyrefitte), 2

representative democracy, 33, 38

restoration of confidence, 114

Right, 96–7, 129, 151, 160–1

right to dumping, 134

right-wing Left, 146–8

risk society, 23

Roosevelt, Franklin D., xvii

Roth, Philip, xvii

Rougier, Louis, 33

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 2–3, 37

Royer-Collard, Pierre Paul, 46

Rueff, Jacques, 83–4

rules capital, 21n17

rules of competition, 82

rules of law, 34, 35, 37

ruling capital, 21n17

Salvini, Matteo, xxiv

Sarkozy, Nicolas, xxv, xxviii, 67, 105, 147

Schäuble, Wolfgang, 90n26, 109, 119

Schmitt, Carl, xxvii, 46

Schröder, Gerhard, 150, 150n3

Schulz, Theodor W., 68n27

Schuman, Robert, 84

Schumpeter, Joseph, 51n3

security

liberty and, 2n1

as the number one freedom, 2

Security and Liberty law (1981), 2

seisachtheia, 111–2

self-aggravation, of crisis, 17

self-enterprise, 70–1

self-entrepreneur, 67

self-valorization (S-S'), 70

senior civil servants, osmosis of, 139–43

separation of powers, 35

shock doctrine, 24

Smith, Adam, 78

social democracy, 25, 31, 150, 151

social democrats, 97

social dumping, 22, 134

social justice, 151

social market economy, 82

social reality, 24

social-democratic Left, 25

societies, accelerated

neoliberalization of, 6–7

sovereign debt crisis, 101–2, 142

sovereign debts, 21

sovereignty

defined, 46

new conception of, 103–7

popular, 154

S-S' (self-valorization), 70

stasis, 12

state

as cause of bank failures, 19

pre-eminence of private law over, 33–6

state securitarianism, 2

statism, 155

Stiglitz, Joseph, 14–15

The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism (Crouch), 15

Streeck, Wolfgang, 83n13, 114

structural adjustment programmes, 54

subjectivity, limitlessness as a regime of, 64–74

Supiot, Alain, 153

supreme authority, 36

supreme power, 33

surplus, 22

sustainability, of the debt, 116

symbolic formatting, 59–60

Syriza. See Greece

systemic corruption, 130–4

Taylorist division of labour, 51

Temer, Michel, xxi

terra nullius, 61, 61n17, 62–3

totalitarian democracy, 33

Toussaint, Éric, 101n3

Treaty of Rome (1957), 82, 167

Treaty of Westphalia (1648), 78

Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG) (2012), 93

Trichet, Jean-Claude, 105–6

Trudeau, Justin, xxiv

Trump, Donald, xxiv

Trumpism, xiv–xvii

TSCG (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance) (2012), 93

Tsipras, Alexis, 166

uberization, 152

ultra-liberal globalization, 153

ultra-liberalism, 153

UMPS, 127–8, 128n6

valorization, 64

value, accumulation of, 22

Varoufakis, Yanis, 76, 90n25, 97–8, 103, 107n15, 109, 118

Vichy, 84

war on democracy, 104

Ward-Perkins, Bryan, 77–8

Washington Consensus, 54, 120

weapons of political war, 118

Weidmann, Jens, 106n14

welfare of capital, 115

welfare state, 132

Winshaw, Henry, 19–20n16

workplace collectives, xix

xenophobia, 16

zero taxes, 21