02279nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10541142 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120217s2012 dcu sb 001 0 eng d 2012005675 9780815721963 9780815721970 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)784958109 e------ e-gr--- HG930.5 .B37 2012eb 332.4/94 23 Bastasin, Carlo, 1959- Saving Europe [electronic resource] : how national politics nearly destroyed the euro / Carlo Bastasin. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2012. viii, 405 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. The 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Monetary policy European Union countries History 21st century. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Euro. Greece Economic policy 21st century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10541142 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 136341 136341