LEADER 03494nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910807663903321 005 20240516190055.0 010 $a1-280-12766-X 010 $a9786613531544 010 $a0-8157-2197-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000099238 035 $a(EBL)951451 035 $a(OCoLC)784958109 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000621964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000621964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10639088 035 $a(PQKB)10835847 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001454199 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11952225 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001454199 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11495576 035 $a(PQKB)11161270 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC951451 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL951451 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10541142 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL353154 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000099238 100 $a20120217d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSaving Europe$b[electronic resource] $ehow national politics nearly destroyed the euro /$fCarlo Bastasin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (419 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8157-2196-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe origin of mistrust -- The secrets behind the banks -- Europe's awkward ambitions to change the world -- Too different for one policy -- First doubts about the euro -- The American crisis becomes the European crisis -- The European central bank's first rescue of the states -- Karlsruhe, ruling the world from the province -- The well-known secret of the Greek tragedy -- Let Greece default -- Bringing the euro to the brink, in order to save it -- Sell your islands -- Contagion -- Dr. Faust saves the euro -- From a new complacency to the Irish crisis -- A sophisticated way to commit suicide -- A fateful fight between the ECB and the heads of governments -- The crisis reaches Italy and Spain -- Berlusconi's moral hazard and the German waterboarding strategy -- Solution or dissolution : political union or the end of the euro -- Epilogue : toward the political union. 330 $aThree times in the few years since the global financial crisis erupted, the euro has come close to extinction, endangering both the world economy and history's most ambitious project in shared sovereignty. Yet each tim e, the case for a common currency proved to be more compelling than its weaknesses, and the euro survived. Saving Europe reveals how the nexus of international economics and national politics pushed monetary union to the brink of a breakup, how that disastrous development was avoided, and why the long-term viability of a common currency challenges politics as we know 606 $aMonetary policy$zEuropean Union countries$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 606 $aEuro 607 $aGreece$xEconomic policy$y21st century 615 0$aMonetary policy$xHistory 615 0$aGlobal Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. 615 0$aEuro. 676 $a332.4/94 700 $aBastasin$b Carlo$f1959-$0133592 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807663903321 996 $aSaving Europe$93957078 997 $aUNINA