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The proposition that economic integration can help to smooth the way to political integration has been described by Wilhelm Röpke on many occasions as a dangerous manifestation of economism1. The experience of the EC and the CMEA tends to bear out this opinion.
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Philipps-Universität Marburg.
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Schüller, A. The failure of economism in western and eastern integration policy. Intereconomics 13, 227–235 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929246
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929246