Further reading
Despite the euro’s and the European Union’s relative youth, there is a vast amount of literature on both. The footnotes to the text cite several sources that have been especially helpful. Below is a list of some books that readers might wish to consult.
Almqvist, K. and Linklater, A. (eds), The Pursuit of Europe, Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation, 2012
Authers, J., Europe’s Financial Crisis: A Short Guide to How the Euro Fell Into Crisis, and the Consequences for the World, Pearson Education, 2013
Bastasin, C., Saving Europe: How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro, Brookings Institutions Press, 2012
Booth, P. (ed.), The Euro: the Beginning, the Middle… and the End?, IEA, 2013
Carswell, S., Anglo Republic, Inside the Bank that Broke Ireland, Penguin Ireland 2011
Cornelius, S., Angela Merkel: The Authorised Biography, Alma Books, 2013
Crawford, A. and Czuczka, T., Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis, Wiley, 2013
De Grauwe, P., Economics of Monetary Union, 9th edition, Oxford University Press, 2012
Gammelin, C. and Löw, R., Europas Strippenzieher (in German), Ullstein Buchverlage Berlin, 2014
Goulard, S. and Monti, M., De la démocratie en Europe: Voir plus loin (in French), Flammarion, 2012
Habermas, J., The Crisis of the European Union: A Response, Polity, 2012
Heise, M, Emerging from the Europe Debt Crisis, Springer, 2013
Hewitt, G., The Lost Continent, Hodder & Stoughton, 2013
Issing, O., The Birth of the Euro, Cambridge University Press, 2008
James, H., Making the European Monetary Union, Harvard University Press, 2012
Legrain, P., European Spring: Why Our Economics and Politics are in a Mess – and How to Put Them Right, CB Books (Amazon), 2014
Marsh, D., Europe’s Deadlock, Yale University Press, 2013
Marsh, D., The Euro: the Battle for a New Global Currency, Yale University Press, updated 2011
O’Toole, F., Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger, Faber and Faber, 2009
Pisani-Ferry, J., The Euro Crisis and its Aftermath, Oxford University Press, 2014
Panagiotarea, E., Greece in the Euro, ECPR Press, 2013
Pryce, V., Greekonomics, Biteback, updated 2013
Soros, G., The Tragedy of the European Union, Public Affairs, 2014
Tsoukalis, L. and Emmanouilidis, J. (eds), The Delphic Oracle on Europe, Oxford University Press, 2011
Tsoukalis, L., The Unhappy State of the European Union, Policy Network, March 2014
Van Middelaar, L., The Passage to Europe, Yale University Press, 2013