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The euro : how a common currency threatens the future of Europe / Joseph E. Stiglitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stiglitz, Joseph E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Union.
- Euro.
- Currency question--European Union countries.
- Currency question.
- Financial crises.
- Europe--Economic integration.
- Europe.
- European federation.
- Financial crises--European Union countries.
- Monetary policy--European Union countries.
- Monetary policy.
- European Union countries.
- International economic integration.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 416 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2016]
- Summary:
- Discusses how the 2008 financial crisis revealed the shortcomings of the euro and how it has caused Europe's economic stagnation, and outlines three possible plans for moving forward.
- Contents:
- Part I. Europe in crisis
- The euro crisis
- The euro: the hope and the reality
- Europe's dismal performance
- Part II. Flawed from the start
- When can a single currency ever work?
- The euro: a divergent system
- Monetary policy and the European Central Bank
- Part III. Misconceived policies
- Crises policies: how Troika policies compounded the flawed eurozone structure, ensuring depression
- Structural reforms that further compounded failure
- Part IV. A way forward?
- Creating a eurozone that works
- Can there be an amicable divorce?
- Toward a flexible euro
- The way forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-394) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393254020
- 039325402X
- OCLC:
- 921868677
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