Saving Europe : anatomy of a dream / Carlo Bastasin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bastasin, Carlo, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Brookings Institution, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euro.

Monetary policy--European Union countries.

Monetary policy.

Financial crises.

European Union countries.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Financial crises--Greece.

Economic and Monetary Union.

Fiscal policy--European Union countries.

Fiscal policy.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xviii, 543 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

New and updated.

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]

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.

Notes:

Originally published in 2012 with the subtitle: How national politics nearly destroyed the euro.

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

Foreword by Barry Eichengreen.

ISBN:

0815726139

9780815726135

OCLC:

884299483