After the formation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, enthusiasts of regional integration in North America turned their attention to “deeper” forms of integration, especially a customs union or monetary union.1 Interest in proposals for deeper integration peaked...

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...