Barry Eichengreen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Jeans #Signatures #United States
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Country #Wrath #Spain
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Moving #Europe #Unstable
Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Crush #Europe #Southern
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Mean #Europe #Political
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Long #Tragedy #Unemployment
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Running #Breakup #Achievement
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Depth #Unemployment #Picnics
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Political #Division #Reason
While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Together #Painful #Politician
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Government #Two #Effort

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