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Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Monetary policy > European Union countries > History > 21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Euro.
Greece > Economic policy > 21st century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The origin of mistrust
  • The secrets behind the banks
  • Europe's awkward ambitions to change the world
  • Too different for one policy
  • First doubts about the euro
  • The American crisis becomes the European crisis
  • The European central bank's first rescue of the states
  • Karlsruhe, ruling the world from the province
  • The well-known secret of the Greek tragedy
  • Let Greece default
  • Bringing the euro to the brink, in order to save it
  • Sell your islands
  • Contagion
  • Dr. Faust saves the euro
  • From a new complacency to the Irish crisis
  • A sophisticated way to commit suicide
  • A fateful fight between the ECB and the heads of governments
  • The crisis reaches Italy and Spain
  • Berlusconi's moral hazard and the German waterboarding strategy
  • Solution or dissolution : political union or the end of the euro
  • Epilogue : toward the political union.

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