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the fundamental insight of political economy archive/dissertation

[...] Habermas’s partial incorporation of systems theory – the recognition of a technocratic claim to dominance over certain sectors of society, analogous to relativity theory conceding a limited applicability to classical mechanics – depoliticizes the economic, narrowing it down to a unidimensiona…

—p.169 Why the Euro Divides Europe (165) by Wolfgang Streeck
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the most independent central bank in the world

[...] While other central banks are embedded in a state with coextensive jurisdiction and have to face a government and a public at the same territorial and political level, the currency and the common market the ECB runs are stateless (as is, essentially, the legal system governed by the ECJ). Thi…

—p.161 Heller, Schmitt and the Euro (151) by Wolfgang Streeck
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