3. The French vice: Gold, the euro and a peculiar taste for monetary discipline

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vi
4. 1. The real thing: A tale of two product launches 1
5. 2. A burning building with no exits’: Designing a euro inferno 29
6. 3. The French vice: Gold, the euro and a peculiar taste for monetary discipline 59
7. 4. No end of a lesson: Schools of thought collide in the Eurozone 87
8. 5. Ire and ice: Two crises in a cruel sea 115
9. 6. A bullet dodged: How Gordon Brown, Ed Balls and the man in the white coat saved Britain from a euro nightmare 145
10. 7. The Sisyphus effect: Greece’s tormented euro-odyssey 174
11. 8. The Italian job 201
12. 9. Kicking the can: The Eurozone’s never-ending crisis 229
13. 10. The end of the affair: Why the left is falling out of love with the euro 257
14. Epilogue: Still not working: The view from 2017 285
15. Endnotes 314
16. Index 327