Hayek’s Trap and the European Utopia We Need

• Philippe Van Parijs ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Louvain
• Localización: Reducing Inequalities. A Challenge for the European Union? / Renato Miguel do Carmo (ed. lit.), Cédric Rio (ed. lit.), Márton Medgyesi (ed. lit.), 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-65005-0, págs. 213-223
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  • Where can we find the most lucid compact description of the predicament of today’s European Union (EU), the most convincing succinct explanation for its contribution to the deepening of inequalities and its inability to reduce them? In a powerful plea for the creation of a multinational federation written nearly eighty years ago. In an article published in 1939 under the title ‘The economic conditions of interstate federalism,’ Friedrich Hayek sets out why he finds such a multinational federation, much later exemplified by the EU, a wonderful idea. This is essentially because it combines two features.