• PDF / 2,427,979 Bytes
• 228 Pages / 439.43 x 666.14 pts Page_size
• 21 Downloads / 249 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT

---

urope's Century of Crises Under Dollar Hegemony

Brendan Brown • Philippe Simonnot

Europe's Century of Crises Under Dollar Hegemony A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unsound Money

Brendan Brown Hudson Institute Washington, DC, USA

Philippe Simonnot Paris, France

ISBN 978-3-030-46652-7    ISBN 978-3-030-46653-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46653-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Andrii Vodolazhskyi, shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

In memory of Irene Brown Brendan Brown To Marie Solies Philippe Simonnot

Invitation to Our French-Speaking Readers

 ow to Access the Original French Content H of This Book If you would like to read the questions and conclusion by Philippe Simonnot in his original French, these can be found in the Appendices at the end of the book. These are also available to download on SpringerLink. Brendan Brown  Philippe Simonnot

vii

Acknowledgments

The inspirator and creator of this dialogue is Philippe Simonnot. Little did I know when he wrote to me two years ago saying that he would like to work on introducing my ideas to the French-speaking public that we would progress to a multi-year dialogue which then was to take the form of the present book. Throughout this process, his questions to me have been a continuous source of thinking and rethinking about sound money and how to get there from the present highly unsound monetary regime. We have a mutual passion for understanding financial history and its political or geo-­ political links. Philippe has been the catalyst to my re-foc