„My old horse-cart's running slow”?

The publication includes seven studies. It would be difficult to identify the guiding prin-ciple behind the editor’s choice in the order of the studies: they are various analyses relying on different theories and statistical data borrowed from elsewhere, without being linked on any level. Amid tables with often dull statistical retical discussions, which offer true refreshment for the mind. The book provides new informa-tion but, in many cases, disputable conclusions for a broad readership. My advice to readers with a more refined taste in theoretical issues is to read the book as we used to read domestic newspapers: start with the back page featuring the most exciting news – that is sports –, which in our case is the study by László Csaba, ana-lysing the crisis of the euro area from a rather unique economic approach, albeit with some highly arguable statements.