| ID | 156787 |
| Title Proper | Listening to the experts on European monetary integration |
| Other Title Information | comment on noah carl |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Schelkle, Waltraud |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Noah carl's article is a fairly representative contribution to the distinctive genre of ‘European dystopias’. His eurozone is a dystopia in the precise sense of the Oxford Dictionary: ‘An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.’ The fevered imaginations are usually those of US economists; the source of their bleak predictions is the economic theory of optimal currency areas. Carl extends the economic analysis to the realm of identity politics, and enlists a few more authors that inspired his own dystopia, among them that well-known scholar of all things monetary and European, Mrs ‘I-want-my-money-back’ Thatcher. |
| `In' analytical Note |
Political Quarterly Vol. 88, No.4; Oct-Dec 2017: p.684–688 |
| Journal Source | Political Quarterly 2017-12 88, 4 |
| Key Words | Experts on European Monetary Integratio ; Comment on Noah Carl |