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Author Bastasin, Carlo, 1959-

Title Saving Europe [electronic resource] : how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / Carlo Bastasin.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012.

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Description viii, 405 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Monetary policy -- European Union countries -- History -- 21st century.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Euro.
Greece -- Economic policy -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780815721963
9780815721970 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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