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Whither Europe? The Modest Camp vs the Federalist Austerians – in Open Democracy

11/06/2014 by

Screen Shot 2014-06-11 at 4.02.33 PMby JAMES GALBRAITH and YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Proposals for resolving the Eurozone crisis, and re-designing its architecture, are multiplying – especially as evidence mounts that the crisis is continuing, despite all the official announcements of its end. Our Modest Proposal  was the first to have been tabled, along with Breugel’s Blue Bond Proposal, back in 2010. In this review article, J.K. Galbraith and I argue that, while there is now a plethora of proposals for ‘fixing’ the Eurozone, there are only two competing camps. One is our ‘Modest Camp’, whose policy recommendations would re-configure the Eurozone immediately, using existing institutions, and without cumbersome federal moves that would legitimate a permanent Austerity Union. The other being, what we described as, the Federalist Austerians’ Camp.  Click here for the OPEN DEMOCRACY site

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