For the latest long interview/piece that explains and defends the (most recent version of) Modest Proposal click here. More poignant articles/posts follow below:
- 25 NOV 2010 What will it take to stop the domino effect on its tracks before it reaches Spain and Italy?
- 14 DEC 2010 – The Modest Proposal and the Juncker-Tremonti Plan: A comparison
- 19 DEC 2010 – Alternative Strategies for Exiting the Euro Crisis And why they do not measure up to the Modest Proposal
- 6 JAN 2011 – Toxic eurobonds that divide versus benign eurobonds that bind
- 16 JAN 2011 – Further debate on the Modest Proposal for the Resolution of the Euro Crisis, with George Krimpas and Jerry Goldstein
- 14 MAR 2011 – The ECB’s new role, as foreshadowed in the Modest Proposal: Q&A with a reader
- 17 MAR 2011 – Would the implementation of the Modest Proposal 2.0 require a change in the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties? And what about Bini Smaghi’s proposal to create a European agency that issues centrally all government bonds?
- 3 MAY 2011 – THE EURO CRISIS AS A TWIN RECYCLING PROBLEM, by Yanis Varoufakis and Stuart Holland, based on an idea by George Krimpas
- 12 MAY 2011 – Recent developments and the Modest Proposal: Interview with ForexStreet (Barcelona)
- 13 MAY 2011 – Article in Die Zeit, promoting the Modest Proposal
- 2 JUN 2011 – Saviour of Last Resort: The Modest Proposal as the Eurozone’s last line of defence
- 9 JUN 2011 – The New York Times’ article on our Modest Proposal: My reaction
- 26 JUN 2011 – The Penny Is Dropping: Mervyn King, Daniel Gros, Jim O’Neill, and the increasing relevance of the Modest Proposal
- 19 JUN 2011 – Presenting the case for the Modest Proposal on Irish and Scottish radio, plus a BBC World Service debate with Daniel Gros and a German based colleague (in which a surprising degree of agreement was reached)
- 3 JUL 2011 – Seven radio and TV interviews on the Euro/Greek Crisis and the Modest Proposal…
- 4 JUL 2011 – Declaration by Distinguished former European Leaders in Support of the Modest Proposal’s main tenets: The urgent need for a European New Deal
- 7 JUL 2011 – American Common Sense on Europe: The NYT largely adopting the logic of the Modest Proposal, and even Jeffrey Sachs making sympathetic noises
- 9 JUN 2011 – Giuliano Amato and Guy Verhofstadt answer questions from To VIMA on why they signed our Declaration espousing the Modest Proposal’s main tenets
- 6 AUG 2011 – What the Modest Proposal asks of the ECB: Responses to a reader’s criticisms
- 10 AUG 2011 – The Modest Proposal’s Most Controversial Recommendation Foreshadowed in the FT; plus Gordon Brown (former UK PM) and Sigmar Gabriel (SPD Chairman) adopting its main principles
- 13 AUG 2011 – Why the ECB must, for its own sake, issue its own eurobonds
- 17 AUG 2011 – Why Eurobonds are Essential and Fiscal Union a Folly (Or how to escape the equally untenable positions of German economists Thomas Straubhaar and Otmar Issing)
- 20 AUG 2011 – The Modest Proposal as the last shot left in the eurozone’s barrel: Guest post by George Krimpas
- 28 AUG 2011 – Hour long radio interview (91.5FM WNYE New York) on the eurozone crisis and the Modest Proposal
- 5 SEP 2011 – Eurobonds: Not a question of ‘whether’ but one of ‘who will issue them’ and ‘who will back them’
- 25 SEP 2011 – Arresting the Freefall rather than a Blueprint for the ‘Good Europe’: The Modest Proposal defended against C. Flower’s powerful critique
- 29 OCT 2011 – A leveraged EFSF or an ECB-brokered debt conversion? Europe’s recent scheme for resolving the crisis versus our Modest Proposal
- 17 NOV 2011 – A simple and boring common bond
- 30 NOV 2011 – Eurobonds that can work now! A critique of the European Commission’s Green Paper on ‘Stability’ Bonds, by Stuart Holland
- 8 DEC 2011- The Modest Proposal in the European Parliament: Varoufakis and Holland, on video, presenting
- 10 DEC 2011 – What the ECB ought to be doing now so as to end the Crisis without Treaty changes, debt buybacks, haircuts or fiscal transfers In reply to the “Critique on the Modest Proposal” by Andreas Koutras
- 13 DEC 2011 – The Modest Proposal in French/France plus a supportive article in the Irish Times by Fintan O’ Toole
- 15 MAR 2012 – Assessing George Soros’ latest plan for saving the eurozone: Prelude to Modest Proposal 3.0
- 16 APR 2012 – The Modest Proposal in Berlin; at the INET Conference, 13th April 2012
- 18 APR 2012 – THE MODEST PROPOSAL AND THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT
- 21 APR 2012 – The Modest Proposal in Eurointelligence (abridged version)
- 27 APR 2012 – A chance for happiness for Europe’s unhappy family (article commissioned by The Globalist)
- 17 AUG 2012 – A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis: an abridged version as published by the Financial Times On Line
- 19 AUG 2012 – Latest Q&A on our Modest Proposal:
- 15 JUL 2013 – NEW: A Modest Proposal for Resolving the Euro Crisis, Version 4.0 – by Yanis Varoufakis, Stuart Holland and James K. Galbraith
- 20 JUL 2013 – Q&A on the Modest Proposal’s policies involving the ECB and the EIB
- 20 JUL 2013 – Debt Redemption, PSI&OSI versus our Modest Proposal: Q&A with Portuguese readers
- 22 JUL 2013 – On the legality, mechanics and effectiveness of the Modest Proposal’s policy regarding the Eurozone’s debt crisis
- 26 JUL 2013 – More on the debt conversion policy in Modest Proposal 4.0
- 26 JUL 2013 – Six critical responses to the Modest Proposal – now with our rejoinders
- 27 JUL 2013 – Discussing the Modest Proposal on ‘Prime Interest’, RT tv
- 17 SEP 2013 – A modest objection to the Modest Proposal: Debt write offs instead of the Modest Proposal
- 17 SEP 2013 – The Modest Proposal as a Trojan Horse for the dreaded transfer union: Guest post by Hubert Marcks
- 27 NOV 2013 – Long interview with NachDenkSeiten explaining the Modest Proposal Version 4.0
- 6 JAN 2014 – Why Reinhart and Rogoff are wrong about the Eurozone’s debt structure and the costs of debt mutualisation
- 15 JAN 2014 – The Modest Proposal (Version 4.0) for Resolving the Euro Crisis explained: An interview with Roger Strassburg of NachDenkSeiten
- 16 JAN 2014 – Le Monde interview on the french language edition of The Modest Proposal 4.0
- 10 APR 2014 – THINK BIG, THINK BOLD: Toward a Pan-European, Green New Deal
- 11 JUN 2014 – Whither Europe? The Modest Camp vs the Federalist Austerians – in Open Democracy;
- 12 JUN 2014 – The European Question – On ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live
- 23 JUN 2014 – A European New Deal financed by the EIB, with ECB QE-backing, is the optimal policy: Now recommended also by W. Münchau
- 22 JUN 2014 – James K. Galbraith on The Modest Proposal, Europe and Greece
- 27 AUG 2014 – ON EUROPE’S RETREATING UNION: DIAGNOSIS AND A PROPOSAL
- 21 SEP 2014 – Revisiting the Modest Proposal: Q&A with a sceptic – Fall 2014 version
- 24 SEP 2014 – Mr Juncker should look to an EIB-ECB alliance, not to the ESM
- 23 OCT 2014 – It is time for the ECB to purchase EIB bonds: Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff sides with our proposal
- 11 NOV 2014 – Slovakia adopts our proposal of ECB-purchases of EIB bonds