http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200904-125013-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/political-economy-in-the-european-constitutional-imaginary-moving-beyond-fiesole/ Political Economy in the European Constitutional Imaginary – Moving beyond Fiesole - Contribution to the online symposium on Poul F. Kjær (ed), The Law of Political Economy: Transformations in the Function of Law (CUP 2020) Komárek, Jan eng 2020-09-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 European Constitutionalism Fiesole neoliberalism Political Economy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The volume seeks to re-connect law and political economy, both understood in very broad terms. My contribution provides an additional perspective on this theme, and discusses the place of political economy (or rather its conspicuous absence) in the constitutional imaginary of Europe, which has dominated much of the last three decades. It originated, in the words of Antoine Vauchez, ‘in the hills of Fiesole between Badia Fiesolana and the Villa Schifanoia’ (now of course Villa Salviati). Joseph Weiler’s The Transformation of Europe is the foundational piece of this imaginary. I have recently analysed Transformation and discussed it at the place of its birth. This contribution builds on that analysis