Europe's century of crises under dollar hegemony : a dialogue on the global tyranny of unsound money
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Europe's century of crises under dollar hegemony : a dialogue on the global tyranny of unsound money
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG ... Cham, Switzerland"--T.p. verso
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Description
This book showcases written dialogue from Brendan Brown and Philippe Simonnot on the subject of European monetary turmoil past and present and what hope there could be for future reform. Starting with the collapse of the gold standard in 1914, proceeding to the brief gold-dollar standard of the mid inter-war years, on to the collapse of Bretton Woods and the heyday of the Deutsche mark and ultimately discussing the euro, this book looks at a broad range of financial history alongside many new and provoking hypotheses about the devastating monetary turbulence of the successive eras, always with a focus on the US monetary hegemon. A highlight of the dialogue is an exploration of how past and future crises could combine to give birth to sound money in Europe - the launch, in effect, of a new euro. In the questions and answers within these pages, the authors draw on global examples and the challenges for Europe in deciding how to adapt to successive monetary shocks from the US, crafting a book that would be of interest to general finance and economics readers alongside students, researchers, and policymakers.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Tyranny of Unsound Money
Part II. Dialogue
Chapter 2. Phobia of DeflationChapter 3. The Great War and the End of the Gold StandardChapter 4. From Birth of Dollar Hegemony Towards the 1929 CrisisChapter 5. Explaining 1929Chapter 6. How Gold Financed Nazi GermanyChapter 7. Bretton Woods: The False Gold StandardChapter 8. The Strategic Choice for GermanyChapter 9. For or Against FriedmanChapter 10. How the Euro Was BornChapter 11. Trichet in Front of TrichetChapter 12. The Great Crisis of 2008Chapter 13. American Capitalism Versus European CapitalismChapter 14. The Submission of the Euro to the 2% Inflation StandardChapter 15. Draghi: "Whatever It Takes"Chapter 16. The Greek CrisisChapter 17. Banking UnionChapter 18. The Underperformance of EuropeChapter 19. The Balance Sheet of DraghiChapter 20. The Principles of the New EuroChapter 21. The Launch of the New Euro
Part III. Conclusion
Chapter 22. At the Heart of the World
Epilogue. Pandemic and Crash 2020
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