Eurotragedy :
Mody, Ashoka,
Eurotragedy : a drama in nine acts / Ashoka Mody. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In May 1950, five years after the second of two catastrophic wars, European nations began building a magnificent structure of institutional cooperation and open trade borders to secure peace and prosperity. Then, in 1969, they took an astonishingly ill-advised leap towards a single currency-requiring a single monetary policy for vastly divergent economies. This was economic folly, critics untiringly warned. Worse, it carried the seeds of political division. Europe's leaders went forward unheeding, and in January 1999, the tragedy of the euro began. This vivid and compelling chronicle describes how the euro improbably emerged through a narrow historical window as a flawed compromise wrapped in a false pro-European rhetoric of peace and unity.
Specialized.
9780190873721 (ebook) : No price
Europe--Economic integration--History.
Europe--Economic conditions--1945-
HC240 / .M694 2018
337.14209
Eurotragedy : a drama in nine acts / Ashoka Mody. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In May 1950, five years after the second of two catastrophic wars, European nations began building a magnificent structure of institutional cooperation and open trade borders to secure peace and prosperity. Then, in 1969, they took an astonishingly ill-advised leap towards a single currency-requiring a single monetary policy for vastly divergent economies. This was economic folly, critics untiringly warned. Worse, it carried the seeds of political division. Europe's leaders went forward unheeding, and in January 1999, the tragedy of the euro began. This vivid and compelling chronicle describes how the euro improbably emerged through a narrow historical window as a flawed compromise wrapped in a false pro-European rhetoric of peace and unity.
Specialized.
9780190873721 (ebook) : No price
Europe--Economic integration--History.
Europe--Economic conditions--1945-
HC240 / .M694 2018
337.14209