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11 quotes by Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen Born 1952 (age 62–63) Nationality American Institution University of California, Berkeley Field Political economics, Economic History Alma mater Yale University UC Santa Cruz Influenced Marcel Fratzscher Information at IDEAS / RePEc Barry Eichengreen (born 1952) is an American economist who holds the title of George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University...
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or... →

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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in... →

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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a... →

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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain... →

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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is... →

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Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure... →

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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that... →

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