Malcolm Sawyer Archives - Brave New Europe

Can the Euro be saved? by Malcolm Sawyer

December 10, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff The answer is yes. But saving the euro will be immensely difficult, and will require political, ideological and institutional changes. The euro always had serious design flaws. Back in 1989, […]

Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer – Why Does the Euro Area Have Such Low Growth and High Unemployment?

November 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since its inception the euro-area economies have been marked by poor economic performance. The causes have been the austerity policy agenda, so called “structural reforms,” and the failures to resolves the current account constraints on […]