Unleashing Social Justice through EU Public Procurement

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
PART I The status quo
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Background
		1.2 Theoretical perspectives on social formation – a general idea
		1.3 On theories of social justice
		1.4 On Europe’s social model
		1.5 Social Europe on the move
		1.6 On the power of social protection expenditure
		1.7 The case for a reordered public procurement regime
		1.8 Concluding remarks
	2 European integration and the interplay with public procurement
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 The relationship between the EU’s social and economic dimensions
		2.3 The beginnings of the development of EU public procurement regulation and its role in European integration – an overview
		2.4 Advancing a socially just model of European integration through public procurement
		2.5 Concluding remarks
	3 The effectiveness of EU public procurement
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 EU public procurement and its impact on transparency
		3.3 EU public procurement and its impact on cross border procurement
		3.4 EU public procurement and its impact on small- and medium-sized enterprises
		3.5 EU public procurement and its impact on the international public procurement market
		3.6 Concluding remarks
	4 Free trade: what about it – myths or realities?
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 On framing economic theories
		4.3 The theory of comparative advantage – a general idea
		4.4 Moving beyond theory – free trade and the Europe 2020 strategy
		4.5 The liberalisation of the network industries as an illustration of the EU’s overriding and unconditional attitude towards the Single Market project
		4.6 Concluding remarks
	5 Poverty and natural law theory in context
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Poverty across the EU – a snapshot
		5.3 The nature of poverty – definitions abound
		5.4 Freedom for human flourishing as conceived through natural law theory
		5.5 Respect for human dignity – a legally enforceable fundamental right
		5.6 The quest for poverty reduction – putting EU public procurement into perspective
		5.7 Concluding remarks
PART II Closing the gap
	6 The mission of serving the public: services of general interest and community law
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 The European Commission and its plethora of soft law
		6.3 Services of general economic interest – forging a bond between European economic efficiency and social cohesion?
		6.4 Services of general interest – an endeavour in untangling chaos in the free-thinking zone
		6.5 Concluding remarks
	7 Public procurement as the EU’s safety valve
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 The EU as a decentred State
		7.3 Marchés publiques as sui generis markets
		7.4 To what extent is the EU public procurement regime serving the public interest?
		7.5 Concluding remarks
PART III The solution
	8 On public-private partnerships: a European theory of a socially just alternative
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 On public-private partnerships
		8.3 UK, London: Thameslink rolling stock procurement programme – the case in a nutshell
		8.4 Arguing for a European theory of social justice
		8.5 Concluding remarks
	9 Conclusions
		9.1 The validity of our actions needs to be limited by time and concrete results
		9.2 On a plane of practical reasonableness
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