This sequel to the author's earlier well-received Euro On Trial, shows how European Monetary Union became a main engine …

Euro Crash diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU as constructed by the Maastricht Treaty and analyses future …

intellectual historical perspective on the creation of the euro and its 20 first years, a comprehensive review of the current and … future challenges of the euro area, including a critical look at the different options for the reform of its governance and … achievements -- 2. Ideas that made the euro (and those that did not make it) (Jacques Le Cacheux) -- 3. The twenty first years …

Part 1 - The Eurozone as a (non) Optimum Currency Area -- STIGLITZ, Joseph. The fundamental flaws in the Euro Zone … Euro Area economic structures changing? -- ANDRADE, João A. S., DUARTE, Adelaide P. S. and SIMÕES, Marta C. N., Differences … in human capital and openness to trade as barriers to growth and convergence in the EU -- LOUÇÃ, Francisco. Has the euro …

lost in terms of economic and social cost from 2002 to 2014 as a consequence of the super-evaluation of the Euro and the … -- PART II: Some Empirical Evidence: Why European Treaties are a Negative-sum Game -- 11. The Cost of the Super-Euro: 2002 …

-- The Global Crisis and Alternative Scenarios to Save the Euro: A Spanish Perspective -- Appendix: Ideology and Economics in … whole project. Further, it undermines the internal macroeconomic logic of a single currency like the euro, and gives a … prominent non-democratic role to financial markets. As it happened in the past with the gold-standard, the euro condemns today …

1 Introduction -- 2 What Went Wrong With the Euro?.- 3 Public Debt: Introductory Remarks -- 4 Was the Eurozone an … of the Euro? -- 12 On the Destabilizing Effects of Bailouts -- 13 On Sound Money and Credit Conditions -- 14 The Case of … Problem -- 18 Can There Be Stable Currencies After the Euro? -- 19 The Gold Standard and Free Banking -- 20 An Unexpected …