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The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt [Audio]
Speaker(s): Martin Sandbu | Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In his new book, Europe's Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt, which he will discuss in this lecture, economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a defence of the euro, arguing that rather than blaming the euro for the political and economic failures in Europe since the global financial crisis, the responsibility lies firmly on the authorities of the Eurozone and its member countries. Martin Sandbu (@MESandbu) has been writing about economics for the Financial Times since 2009. Formerly the newspaper’s economics leader writer, he currently writes the newspaper’s Free Lunch premium economics newsletter. Previously, he was a senior research fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Just Business: Arguments in Business Ethics. The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) was established in 1991 as a dedicated centre for the interdisciplinary study of processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.