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The European Exchange Rate Mechanism has affected all our lives. Monetary union, the ERM's offspring, would affect us even more. The Rotten Heart of Europe, exposes the doubletalk surrounding the efforts of politicians, bankers and bureaucrats to force Europe into a crippling monetary straitjacket. Hidden agendas are laid bare, skulduggery exposed and economic fallacies are skewered in a devastating account of the confidence trick played on Europe by the would-be 'monetary masters of the world'.
Bernard Connolly could hardly have been better placed to write the inside story of the dirty war for Europe's money. For years he has been at the heart of the ERM, as head of the Commission unit responsible for monitoring and servicing the system. Respected by academics, officials and financial market players for his economic expertise and his straight talking, he writes with a deep commitment to restoring the right of the peoples of Europe to order their own affairs. It is this commitment which makes his portrait of the sinister motives and back-to-front reasoning of many Euro-propagandists so powerful and convincing.
The Rotten Heart of Europe is written with a sureness of economic understanding and a depth of political insight that make the arcane world of European monetary politics accessible. It is a dark story leavened with humour and informed with passion - a passion to tell the true story of a mechanism as politically damaging as it is economically perverse, and of the march to Monetary Union that, the author argues, 'is a threat not only to our prosperity but also to our liberties and, ultimately, to our peace'. No one who wants to understand how Britain has been taken for a ride by the proponents of federalism, and why Europe is economically underperforming and politically imploding, can afford to miss this enthralling and disturbing book.
Bernard Connolly could hardly have been better placed to write the inside story of the dirty war for Europe's money. For years he has been at the heart of the ERM, as head of the Commission unit responsible for monitoring and servicing the system. Respected by academics, officials and financial market players for his economic expertise and his straight talking, he writes with a deep commitment to restoring the right of the peoples of Europe to order their own affairs. It is this commitment which makes his portrait of the sinister motives and back-to-front reasoning of many Euro-propagandists so powerful and convincing.
The Rotten Heart of Europe is written with a sureness of economic understanding and a depth of political insight that make the arcane world of European monetary politics accessible. It is a dark story leavened with humour and informed with passion - a passion to tell the true story of a mechanism as politically damaging as it is economically perverse, and of the march to Monetary Union that, the author argues, 'is a threat not only to our prosperity but also to our liberties and, ultimately, to our peace'. No one who wants to understand how Britain has been taken for a ride by the proponents of federalism, and why Europe is economically underperforming and politically imploding, can afford to miss this enthralling and disturbing book.
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Book Description:
A new edition of The Rotten Heart of Europe by Bernard Connolly, the classic whistle-blower's account that shook Europe, fully updated for the post financial crisis world.
About the Author:
Bernard Connolly, born in Manchester in 1949. He worked for many years in the European Commission, becoming head of the unit responsible for analysis of the European Monetary System. The Wall Street Journal Europe named him as one of its outstanding Europeans of the year, 1995. Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, identified him as one of only a handful of economists to have accurately predicted the crisis. Derek Scott, economic adviser to Tony Blair, said of him that he understood the macroeconomic issues facing the world "better than any economist on the planet". As CEO of Connolly Insight, LP, Bernard Connolly now lives in New York.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0571196810
- ISBN 13 9780571196814
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages424
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