This book provides a detailed analysis of the policies and institutions used by the EU to create a single market. Through a historical overview, sectoral case studies, and an assessment of recent policy initiatives, the author provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of European economic integration.

American and European efforts to devise a uniform market for commerce and trade have involved both public and private authorities, though with different degrees of coordination and centralization, as many of the strategies undertaken by the EU echo earlier American market-building efforts.

1. Introduction
2. Setting European Standards: The Political Economy of Market-Building
3. Removing Barriers to Trade: Empirical Evidence
4. Harmonization: the slow strategy forward
5. The Intersection of Law and Markets
6. Regulatory reform strategies and the Single Market Program
7. Private Actors and Market Integration: Politics, Rules and Norms in European Standardization
8. Transferring the Arena of Conflict: Case Studies in Standards Negotiations
9. Corporate Perspectives Towards Market Integration
10. Conclusion