This ambitious volume provides a trenchant and timely analysis of the creation of a single market in both the EU and the US. Comparing the experience of the US during the nineteenth century and the single market of the EU in the twentieth century, Single Markets demonstrates how the political...

A quiet revolution -- The conundrum of market reforms -- The politics of market ideas -- Strange bedfellows -- The market as a constraint -- The market as a norm -- The market as a space -- The market as a talisman -- The Janus-faced European Union