| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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