xxi, 243 p. : ill. ; 21cm.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 BEGGAR THYSELF AND THY NEIGHBOUR -- 1.Several dimensions of a public debt crisis -- A crisis with deep roots -- Institutional bias and malfunction in the eurozone -- Peripheral countries in the shadow of Germany -- The impact of the crisis of 2007-9 and the rol...

Contents note continued: 5.Rising public sector borrowing: Dealing with failed banks and worsening recession -- The straitjacket on fiscal policy -- Rising public deficits and debt due to the crisis -- 6.The financial sector: How to create a global crisis and then benefit from it -- An institutional...

Contents note continued: The economic roots of external debt -- The composition of peripheral debt: Domestic financialisation and external flows -- 10.Rescuing the banks once again -- Banks in the eye of the storm -- Funding pressures on European banks -- The European support package and its aims --...

Contents note continued: Default is not such a disaster, after all -- Appendix 2B Construction of aggregate debt profiles -- Greece -- Appendix 2C Decomposition of aggregate demand -- pt. 3 BREAKING UP? A RADICAL ROUTE OUT OF THE EUROZONE CRISIS -- 13.Hitting the buffers -- A global upheaval -- The...

Contents note continued: Modalities of default -- 18.Default and exit: Cutting the Gordian knot -- Greece defaults but stays in the EMU -- Greece defaults and exits the EMU -- In lieu of a conclusion.