Policy Research in Macroeconomics

Why the euro is the gold standard writ large – and like the gold standard, will fail.

July 2015

The euro not only replicated key elements of the gold standard – but went much further: European currencies were simply abolished. States lost control over both their currency and their central bank. These parallels with the operation of the gold standard explain why, like the gold standard, the euro will fail.

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