Abstract
Autore:
Santagostino Angelo
Titolo:
"Il mercato Unico Europeo. Una prospettiva liberale tra Einaudi e Hayek"
The single European market, product of the European Coal and Community and of the EEC, is a construction that has its base in the classical liberal doctrine. Its benefits were explained by Einaudi in 1944. The so-called fathers of Europe, belonging to different political cultures (Christian democrat, socialist and communist) had to draw from liberal doctrine to build the common market. Planning for Hayek, as for Einaudi, it is a beautiful word when it describes the action of an individual, but it is harmful in the hands of the State. The results of the single market, through his history, say that when European policy makers tried to replace the invisible hand for planning or for the Keynesian State interventionism, ineffectiveness, wastes or resources, destruction of wealth and job have followed. The European single market has delivered its best results when the free market mechanisms have worked freely.
