Saving Europe
Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-
Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / [electronic resource] : Carlo Bastasin. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012. - viii, 405 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Monetary policy--History--European Union countries--21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Euro.
Greece--Economic policy--21st century.
Electronic books.
HG930.5 / .B37 2012eb
332.4/94
Saving Europe how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / [electronic resource] : Carlo Bastasin. - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012. - viii, 405 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Monetary policy--History--European Union countries--21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Euro.
Greece--Economic policy--21st century.
Electronic books.
HG930.5 / .B37 2012eb
332.4/94