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.