Europe's Path to Crisis
Subtitle: Disintegration Via Monetary Union
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780719096044
Subjects: Currency question, europe; Monetary policy, europe; European union countries, foreign economic relations; European union countries, politics and government; Europe, social conditions
Description: The EU's single currency crisis and the ensuing human costs have led to Europe's biggest disaster since 1945. This book examines each of its stages and the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins of the crisis, particularly the failure of elites to promote a genuine European partnership grounded in democratic values and a desire to co-exist with a national outlook. This jargon-free, insightful and long-term analysis of a dangerous crisis is an invaluable book for academics and students alike. It is also an effective tool for policy-makers, citizens and business people who require an accessible and in-depth appraisal of a continuing catastrophe -- Publisher.