The European Superstate?

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You most probably have noticed that prominent blogad we have at the top of the sidebar, promoting a book by Glyn Morgan: The idea of a European Superstate. Well the US-based Chronicle of Higher Education have a review of the book, and, whatsmore, tomorrow, Thursday 7th July at 1 pm Eastern time (8pm CET and 7pm in the UK) the author will be available for a live online debate about the issues raised in the book. So whether you agree, or disagree with him, venez nombreux!

And just to warm things up a bit, after reading the Chronicle of Higher Education article my own view is that it will prove a lot easier to get a ‘one size fits all’ foreign policy than it ever will be to get a common monetary one. (Glyn Morgan is quoted as saying “The nightmare scenario is that the euro fails”).

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About Edward Hugh

Edward 'the bonobo is a Catalan economist of British extraction. After being born, brought-up and educated in the United Kingdom, Edward subsequently settled in Barcelona where he has now lived for over 15 years. As a consequence Edward considers himself to be "Catalan by adoption". He has also to some extent been "adopted by Catalonia", since throughout the current economic crisis he has been a constant voice on TV, radio and in the press arguing in favor of the need for some kind of internal devaluation if Spain wants to stay inside the Euro. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".