Saving Europe : anatomy of a dream /

Saving Europe : anatomy of a dream /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bastasin, Carlo, 1959- (Author)
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:	Brookings Institution, issuing body.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Economic and Monetary Union. Euro. Monetary policy > European Union countries. Monetary policy. Financial crises. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Financial crises > Greece. Fiscal policy > European Union countries. Fiscal policy. European Union countries. Greece.

Table of 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.