Europe's orphan

the future of the Euro and the politics of debt

Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In Europe's Orphan, leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a ...

European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis

employment and inequality in the era of monetary integration

Europeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market. The dominant view in controversy over the social models has been that in the ...

The Euro Trap

on bursting bubbles, budgets, and beliefs

This book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. The euro induced huge capital flows from the northern to the southern countries of the Eurozone ...

Critical theories of crisis in Europe

from Weimar to the Euro

What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This book analyses and explains the recurrent emergence of crises in European societies. It asks how previous ...

The Euro and the battle of ideas

Why is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone nations has left observers wondering whether the currency union can survive. In this book, Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James, and Jean-Pierre Landau ...

El Euro

cómo la moneda común amenaza el futuro de Europa

En 1992 la Unión Europea se propuso el proyecto de implantar una moneda única, el euro, que diez años después era ya una realidad y es hoy compartida por los 19 estados que constituyen la Eurozona. Mientras que durante los primeros años fue celebrado y ...

The Euro

and its threat to the future of Europe

Solidarity and prosperity fostered by economic integration: this principle has underpinned the European project from the start, and the establishment of a common currency was supposed to be its most audacious and tangible achievement. Since 2008, however, the European Union has ricocheted between stagnation and ...

From convergence to crisis

labor markets and the instability of the Euro

What explains Eurozone member-states' divergent exposure to Europe's sovereign debt crisis? Deviating from current fiscal and financial views, From Convergence to Crisis focuses on labor markets in a narrative that distinguishes the winners from the losers in the euro crisis. Alison Johnston argues that ...

In defence of Europe

can the european project be saved?

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, it has shown a strong collective survival instinct but a poor capacity to deliver. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global markets ...

La Unión Europea

de la crisis a la unión federal

La aguda crisis financiera de 2007, que tuvo su origen en Estados Unidos, de inmediato se propagó por Europa, y con ella sus graves consecuencias políticas, sociales y económicas. Más que a una crisis cíclica, característica de las economías avanzadas, dio lugar a una gran ...

Welcome to the poisoned chalice

the destruction of Greece and the future of Europe

The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro while exposing the flaws in the ...

The incomplete currency

the future of the Euro and solutions for the Eurozone

A fact-based treatise on the Eurozone crisis, with analysis of possible solutions The Incomplete Currency is the only technical yet accessible analysis of the current Eurozone crisis from a global perspective. The discussion begins by explaining how the Euro's architecture, the relationship between finance ...

¿Y los pobres sufren lo que deben?

¿cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí y por qué necesitamos un Plan B para Europa?

El destino de la economía mundial pende de un hilo, y Europa está haciendo todo lo posible por debilitarla, por desestabilizar a América y por generar nuevas formas de autoritarismo. Europa, que ha sido el origen de las dos grandes guerras de los últimos 100 ...

Europe's deadlock

how the Euro crisis could be solved-and why it still won't happen

With new material on the astonishing 2014-15 monetary rollercoaster, an incisive chronicler of the euro's upheavals explains how Europe's single currency has lurched in and out of crisis-with widespread repercussions for Britain and the rest of the world. "Marsh is an expert chronicler ...

Librarse del Euro

encuentro de movimientos emancipatorios de los pueblos del sur de Europa

En verano del 2015 el pueblo griego, mediante un referéndum, dijo «No» a las políticas de austeridad impuestas por la Unión Europea. Por sorpresa el gobierno, en un principio contrario a la austeridad, claudicó ante la Comisión Europea y el Eurogrupo y acató sus directrices ...

The political and economic dynamics of the Eurozone crisis

This is the first book to provide a full and dispassionate account of the politics and economics of the Eurozone crisis, focusing on the interlinked origins and impacts of the Euro-Zone crisis and the policy responses to it. The book is distinguished from existing research ...

Bajo el yugo neoliberal

crisis de la deuda y disidencias en las periferias europeas

Exposición minuciosa de las fallas económicas, financieras y democráticas de las instituciones europeas, "Bajo el yugo neoliberal" rebate sin piedad los enfoques interesados que pretenden «echar la culpa a las víctimas». La agenda renovadora, tanto de la democracia como de la economía política, comienza con ...

Economía europea

crecimiento, competitividad y mercados

Fruto de la colaboración de un grupo de prestigiosos economistas, el presente libro aborda los aspectos económicos más relevantes de los países europeos. El lector encontrará en él un sólido análisis de cómo han evolucionado en las últimas décadas y las causas y el tratamiento ...

La verdad sobre la deuda griega

En abril de 2015, el Parlamento griego creó una comisión para establecer la verdad sobre la deuda griega. Presentamos aquí este informe de forma integral, un informe apasionante e iconoclasta, que pone en cuetión las ideas preestablecidas sobre dicha deuda. En efecto, este informe es ...

The Euro experiment

How and why did the euro crisis happen? What are the implications for the economic and political future of Europe? The euro is an extraordinary political and economic experiment, the results of which are still highly uncertain. This book, written by a leading commentator on ...