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The Knowledge-Based Economy and European Identity: Ressentiment and Transvaluation of Values

This paper discusses whether the knowledge-based economy (KBE) as a vital part of Lisbon strategy can take part in the construction of a common European identity. Lisbon strategy, the European Union’ s attempt to catch up with the United States knowledge-based economy, is also interpreted as 'a critique of the American political economy’ (Room and Dencik, 2005). Its creators described it as 'a European way’ (Rodrigues, 2003) which clearly represents an opposition to the American way. The KBE promotion in the EU could therefore be considered as part of the process of transvaluation of values which produces new system of values that 'is necessarily influenced by the one to which it is a reaction’ (Greenfeld, 1992). While Greenfeld used concepts of ressentiment and transvaluation of values to describe the process of nation-building, it is argued here that juxtaposing economic ideologies has been used for integrating supranations (for example: Yugoslav promotion of self-management ideology after the conflict with the Soviet Union). Ideological discourse analysis of appropriate EU policies is used to examine the role of the KBE concept in creation of the European way. Secondary analysis of public opinion research on this issue and of values surveys is used to describe the role of KBE in influencing European values.

knowledge-based economy; European identity; United States

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