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The End of National Currency
Benn Steil
May/June 2007
Summary: Global financial instability has sparked a surge in "monetary nationalism" -- the idea that countries must make and control their own currencies. But globalization and monetary nationalism are a dangerous combination, a cause of financial crises and geopolitical tension. The world needs to abandon unwanted currencies, replacing them with dollars, euros, and multinational currencies as yet unborn.
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A European "New Deal" for the Balkans
Benn Steil and Susan L. Woodward
November/December 1999
Summary: Peace in the Balkans depends on economic stability and prosperity for all. To overcome the legacies of failed economic reforms and ethnic strife, southeastern Europe needs nothing short of a European "New Deal." Sound money and free trade can take root in the Balkans only if the EU expands the euro and its trade arrangements to the region promptly, with no strings attached. But the EU's current approach, which attaches conditions to membership in its elite clubs, falls far short.
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Careless Arithmetic
Benn Steil
July/August 1994
Summary: Steil responds to Paul Krugman's "Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession."
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'Social Correctness' Is the New Protectionism
Benn Steil
January/February 1994
Summary: "Worker rights" is the guise under which protectionism is rising in Europe. The EC denies liberalized trade to low-wage countries able to out-compete Western Europe's benefit-laden workers.
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