The Euro crisis / edited by Philip Arestis, Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK ; and Professor of Economics, University of the Basque Country, Spain and Malcolm Sawyer, Professor of Economics, University of Leeds, UK
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Can the euro survive after the European crisis? / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- The European financial and economic crisis : alternative solutions from a (post- ) Keynesian perspective / Eckhard Hein, Achim Truger and Till van Treeck -- Debt sustainability revisited / Yannis A. Monogios and Panagiotis G. Korliras -- Greece's sudden faltering economy : from boom to bust with special reference to the debt problem / Evangelia Desli and Theodore Pelagidis -- The Irish tragedy / Yiannis Kitromilides -- Portugal's best way out of economic stagnation : institutional reform of the Eurozone / Pedro Leao and Alfonso Palacio-Vera -- The economic crisis in Spain : contagion effects and distinctive factors / Jesús Ferreiro and Felipe Serrano
Summary
The International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series explores the latest developments in political economy. This eighth volume focuses on the financial crisis currently gripping the eurozone, examining the root causes and outcomes and the uncertain future of the euro. The volume provides an overview of the crisis and its possible solutions, with a sharp focus on debt sustainability. Individual countries are also analysed in great depth, with four more detailed studies of the economic climate in Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Greece, exploring the implications of the crisis for economic policies of these countries
