Saving Europe : anatomy of a dream / Carlo Bastasin

Author:: Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-
Additional Titles:: Saving Europe : how national politics nearly destroyed the euro
Published:: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
Copyright Date:: ©2015
Edition:: New and updated.
Paperback edition.
Physical Description:: xviii, 543 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Eichengreen, Barry J. and Brookings Institution

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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 -- The limits of democracy -- Whatever it takes -- The new hierarchy -- Conclusion: a dreamless night.

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ISBN:

0815726139
9780815726135

Note:

Originally published in 2012 with the subtitle: How national politics nearly destroyed the euro.
Foreword by Barry Eichengreen.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-527) and index.

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