Follow-up on Europe’s failed austerity approach

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Yesterday, I have already written about Europe’s failed austerity approach, also mentioning Joseph Stiglitz’ excellent analysis. Paul Krugman (New York Times) and Martin Wolf (Financial Times) now tried to quantify the economic consequences of Europe’s austerity policy. Despite using different approaches for exploring this question, both have basically performed regression analyses of the euro area …

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Europe’s austerity approach has failed

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Finland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, the Netherlands and probably soon also France – this is the Guardian’s long list of the European countries whose governments resigned or weren’t re-elected during the past 14 months (!) due to their failed austerity politics. So, what remains from Europe’s two-year long try to calm …

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