The Tragedy of the Euro
Index
Ackermann, Josef, 123
Adenauer, Konrad, 1, 7, 8, 114
Attali, Jacques, 44, 62, 66
Bastiat, Frédéric, 113
Berlusconi, Silvio, 128
Bitterlich, Joachim, 30
Blüm, Norbert, 61
Bretton Woods, 20–22, 68
Case against the ECB, The, xi
Case against the Fed, The, xi
Charlemagne, 5
classical liberal vision, 1–4, 6, 8, 9, 12
communism, 8
Council of the European Union, 7, 36, 38, 144
Delors, Jacques, 4, 29, 49, 50, 65, 104
Der Spiegel, 60
discount window, 83, 86
Duisenberg, Wim, 26, 39
EcoFin, 37, 38, 123
El País, 131
Emminger, Otmar, 24
European Central Bank, xiii, xvi, xviii, 5, 32, 38, 39–42, 43–47, 73, 89, 105–107, 109, 111, 116, 121, 132, 133, 136, 140, 164
European Commission, 5, 7, 131, 164
European Court of Justice, 3
European Monetary Institute, 31
European Monetary System, xiii, 22, 27, 31, 34
European Monetary Union, xiii, xv, xviii, 9, 47, 73
European Parliament, 7
European Regional Development Fund, 115
Eurosystem, xvi, xviii, 40, 45, 71, 87, 100, 101, 103, 106, 107, 127, 132, 149, 161
Federal Reserve System, xvi
fiat money, 15, 21, 25, 32, 94, 99
fiduciary media, 17–19, 95, 97–99
four basic liberties, 2, 3, 6, 12
Gasperi, Alcide de, 1
Gaulle, Charles de, 7, 8, 10, 20
Gave, Charles, 9
German Federal Constitutional Court, 128
Giscard d’Estaing, Valery, 11, 30, 44, 64, 66
gold standard, 16, 17, 57, 93, 97, 161
Goldman Sachs, 122–123
haircut, 84–87, 106, 164, 165
Hankel, Wilhelm, 128
Hardin, Garrett, 95, 98, 100
Herman, Fernan, 38
Hitler, Adolf, 5, 114
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, 67, 96
Interventionism, 15
Issing, Otmar, 41
Kaletsky, Anatole, 37
Keynesian, xv, 119
Klaus, Václav, 8
Kohl, Helmut, 30, 31, 61, 62, 66, 67
Lawson, Nick, 32
Le Figaro, 117
Lehman Brothers, xiv, xviii, 119, 127
Lisbon Treaty, 11
Maastricht Treaty, 31, 35–36, 39, 44, 45, 54, 63, 66, 117
Major, John, 32
Merkel, Angela, 6, 123, 124, 126, 128, 129, 131, 132, 134, 141, 144, 145, 146, 148
Mises, Ludwig von, 15
Mitterrand, François, 4, 30, 34, 38, 44, 60–62, 64–67
Monnet, Jean, 6
Moody’s, 84, 123, 125, 127, 135, 136
Napoleon, 5
NATO, 34, 60
Nixon, Richard, 21
Nölling, Wilhelm, 35, 60, 128
Obama, Barack Hussein, 128, 129
Papademous, Loukas, 41
Papandreou, Georgios, 120–125
Pöhl, Karl Otto, 30
Prodi, Romano, 37, 70
Rothbard, Murray, xvi
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 5, 124, 125, 130, 145
Sauzay, Brigitte, 62
Schachtschneider, Karl Albrecht, 35, 36, 128
Schäuble, Wolfgang, 33, 120, 129, 133, 140
Schlesinger, Helmut, 26
Schmidt, Helmut, 23, 24, 30, 34
Schuman, Robert, 1, 114
seignorage, 45–46
socialist vision, 1, 4–6, 9, 10, 65
Soros, George, 26
Soto, Huerta de, 98
Spaak, Paul Henri, 114
Stability and Growth Pact, xv, 36–38, 109–110, 134, 140, 150, 163, 164
Stalin, Joseph, 5
Starbatty, Joachim, 35, 128
Stark, Jürgen, 122, 132
Teltschik, Horst, 61
Thatcher, Margaret, 9, 60, 63
Times, The, 37
Tourism for All, xix
Treaty of Rome, 2, 30, 115
Treaty of Versailles, 37, 114, 117
Trichet, Jean-Claude, 39, 64, 66, 121, 125, 127, 129, 132, 133, 137, 132, 146
Two Plus Four Agreement, 58, 60
VAT, 4
Védrine, Hubert, 62
Verheugen, Günther, 33
Waigel, Theodor, 32, 36, 37
Weber, Axel, 41, 124, 127, 132, 138, 144–145
Weidmann, Jens, 123
Weizsäcker, Richard von, 33, 61
welfare state, xiii, 54, 154, 155
Werner, Pierre, 29
Zapatero, José Luis Rodriguez, 125, 127
