economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin … America's experience is particularly relevant and worrisome. Still, Europe may be in a better position to navigate a path out …

potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda challenged. Suddenly it … seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary … union is a historic failure, beyond repair--and certainly not in the interests of Europe's working people. Building on the …

international financial crisis had its origins outside Europe, the Monetary Union has greatly increased the vulnerability of some …