In May 2011, the editors of Intervention: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, which is now named the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP), decided to put together a special issue on post-Keynesian and Institutional Economics.

The paper analyses some well-known explanations of the eurozone crisis and seeks to provide an answer to the question of whether expansionary fiscal policy is feasible within the restrictive confines of the existing structure of the eurozone. The paper addresses this question by focusing on a...