Economics
Ashoka Mody: Why the euro failed
An ercerpt from Ashoka Mody´s outstanding book “EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Act”. Read our book review here Read here
Ashoka Mody
Economics
Ashoka Mody – The IMF abetted the European Union’s subversion of Greek democracy
Who was accountable and who is accountable to the Greek people? European handling of the Greek crisis takes economic colonialism to a twenty-first-century high-water mark. Ashoka Mody is a visiting professor in international economic policy […]
Economics
Rachel Lurie and Ashoka Mody – Brexit is a consequence of low upward mobility
In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future. Rachel Lurie is an Analyst at the Princeton University Investment Company. She graduated […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody: Italy Needs to Wake Up and Fix Its Banks
The euro area’s most vulnerable economy is heading into a storm. Read here
Economics
Ashoka Mody – Euro Tragedy
The Euro was a project that should never have occurred, and was organised by those who had ulterior motives, not the well-being of their citizens. See our review of Mody´s book here.
Economics
EuroTragedy – A Drama in Nine Acts by Ashoka Mody
Book review by David Shirreff There’s an old proverb: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Ashoka Mody, a former IMF economist, and visiting professor at Princeton, tells the tragic tale of how […]
Economics
Ashoka Mody: Italy never should have joined the euro, and the ECB can’t rescue it from its next crisis
Mody’s analysis is not new, but cannot be repeated often enough. The Euro was a project that should never have occurred, and was organised by those who had ulterior motives, not the well-being of their […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody – Eurotragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
As Ashoka Mody details in Eurotragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts (Oxford University Press, 2018), however, the euro that emerged was built on a dangerously flawed set of assumptions, ones which have made the euro […]
Austerity
Ashoka Mody – German social democrats have alienated their base and fractured Europe
Unable to generate a domestic consensus and powerless to counter the priorities dictated by the euro, social democracy must continue to fail at home while divisions among EU nations deepen. Ashoka Mody is a visiting […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody – ECB’s Draghi Ran Out of Ammunition for Italy
Ashoka Mody is spot on. The ECB has no new options to help Italy, it is now a question of financial policy. The Euro is fundamentally flawed. Italy’s conflict has become a question of democracy. […]