The Tragedy of the Euro

This page accompanies my video “The Euro in One Lesson”:

Philipp Bagus’ important book The Tragedy of the Euro is available for purchase in softcover or can be downloaded and read on your various devices.

Here’s Professor Bagus giving a systematic overview of his argument:

Here’s Professor Bagus in a more tightly focused talk called “The Eurocrisis”:

Here the Gold Money Foundation interviews Prof. Bagus:

And here are some of the author’s articles on the subject:

The Eurozone: A Moral-Hazard Morass
Why Is There a Euro Crisis?
The Fed and the ECB: Two Paths, One Goal
The Future of the Euro


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