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A crowded and genuinely good literature. The core question is whether the 2010-12 crisis was caused by fiscal profligacy or by the currency union's own design, and the best books argue it out on the evidence.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- Adults in the RoomYanis Varoufakis, 2017
- EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine ActsAshoka Mody, 2018
- CrashedAdam Tooze, 2018
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
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Books 9
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau · 2016 · The French-German intellectual divide that shaped every crisis decision.
T1 Crashed
Adam Tooze · 2018 · Links the euro crisis to the dollar funding system and the transatlantic banking network.
David Marsh · 2009 · How the single currency was negotiated, by a reporter who watched it.
Hans-Werner Sinn · 2014 · The German critique: Target2 balances, bailouts and current-account imbalances.
T2 The Euro
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 2016 · The case that the currency union's design, not fiscal sin, caused the crisis.
Yanis Varoufakis · 2017 · The negotiating room itself, from a participant who kept notes.
Ashoka Mody · 2018 · By an IMF programme director; the fullest account of the decisions and their sequencing.
Carlo Bastasin · 2012 · Blow-by-blow of the 2010-12 rescues and the national politics behind them.
Martin Sandbu · 2015 · Argues the currency was not the problem, the crisis management was; the best contrarian case.